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English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of ...
Concretes and abstracts in the Old English epic Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
That poem may surely be said to be abstract in character in which the motive is more real than the deed, in which the thoughts of a man's heart are given more dramatic prominence than the facts of his appearance, in which ...
Wordsworth's theory of diction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
With the questions, "What is Wordsworth's theory of diction?", "Did Wordsworth put his theory into practice?", and, indirectly, though necessarily, "Is Wordsworth's theory a correct one?" this paper purposes to deal. In our study of these questions...
English social drama of 1600 and 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Social drama is that type of drama which has for its theme a problem touching the interests of society at large, or a great part of that society. It deals with social conditions and with problems involving the social ...
The Celtic legends and their use in the modern Celtic plays and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The recovery and opening of the Irish legends is undoubtedly the most important phase of the Irish literary movement. The legends contain the very essence of the Irish genius. These stories of "old, unhappy, far-off things" ...
The forms and extent of Milton's influence upon Thomson, Gray and Collins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
"general lines"; to point out the indebtedness of Collins and Gray to Milton's versification, and to posit some evidence in the matter of Thomson's debt to Milton in form, is the province of this paper....
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...