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...interesting review of Surrey in the two aspects of cavalier and author. Surrey was by means a great poet, but he wrote some charming sonnets, noted chiefly for their mastery of form. He is especially interesting because, as the writer says, he was in many senses the forerunner of Spenser, to whom he transmitted the eclogue. "Madonna Mia" is a charming character sketch, written in the characteristic style of the authoress. There is a simplicity and impulsiveness attached to the little French girl that is very interesting and makes one wish that the authoress would try her hand oftener...
...programme of the Saturday lectures in English A is as follows: Early English Literature, Professor Kittredge; Chaucer, Professor Kittredge; Spenser, Professor Wendell; Shakspere, Professor Wendell; English Drama, Mr. Baker; Milton, Professor Briggs; Dryden, Professor Briggs; Swift, Mr. Lathrop; Pope, Mr. Lathrop; Defoe, Mr. Lathrop; The Reaction, Professor Wendell; Three lectures on Nineteenth Century Literature, Mr. Gates...
...their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author and not a coarse...
...great change, however, comes in the English department. English 6 has been revived, but is open only to seniors; 13 is a new course, and will be given in successive years with 1 and 11; Spenser and the English Bible will be studied under Professor Child; Mr. Wendell has been given English 14, which will meet once a week and study the English drama, exclusive of Shakspere; the second half year Professor Briggs will meet a course in English literature from Shakspere to Dryden, exclusive of Milton; 7 and 8 have been given a companion course, numbered 9; it will...
...complete works of Edmund Spenser in prose and verse, 100 copies, printed for private circulation only, with a new life based on original researches, has recently been printed in England. Its chief editors are announced to be Rev. A. B. Grosart, F. T. Palgrave, Prof. Ward and Prof, Child of Harvard University...