Word: smollet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject of Mr. Copeland's fourth lecture-to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening-is Tobias Smollett, author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphrey Clinker." The lecture will be part biography, part criticism. In the treatment of Smollet's work, his novels will be discussed not only in themselves, but in their degree of contrast to the novels of Fielding and Thackeray, and their degree of likeness to those of Dickens...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Smollet. (Last Lecture.) Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
...SATURDAY.Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Smollet. (Last Lecture.) Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
Certain English Authors considered as Masters of Style. Course for freshmen. Special subject: Tobias Smollet. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever 11, 9 a.m. This lecture concludes the course...