Word: thackerays
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...lately published correspondence of Matthew Arnold, Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection...
...study of any novel of Hawthorne, Thackeray or George Eliot with special reference either to the treatment of the plot or to the methods of characterization or to both...
...Copeland urged the students to join the voluntary courses in reading and speaking, and concluded by reading selections from Stevenson, Coleridge, and Thackeray...
...lecture, which is the last for the season, concluded with some discursive comments upon Mrs. Ritchie's "Unpublished Memoirs," an anecdote or two of Thackeray, which she has not set down, and a reading of "The Ballad of Bouillabaise...
...Copeland closed his lecture by reading an extract from Stevenson and a poem of Thackeray...