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The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Even for experts in the field, early English medicine seems to present difficulties. For the uninitiated, it is a trackless jungle...the field of medical and other scientific vernacular manuscripts is still a Yukon territory ...
The structural quality of tone-color in Paradise lost
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This paper attempts to show to what extent the various manifestations of tone-color in Paradise Lost have compensated for the absence of rhyme. A chapter is devoted to the assimilative office of tone-color in the poem, ...
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 ...
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page ii: The following discussion of the poet, Robert Bloomfield, is divided into four parts: first, a detailed account of the poet's life; second, an account of each of the poet's works, its contents and its ...
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 ...