Collected essays of W. P. Ker.
By: Edited with an introd. by Charles Whibley.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Reprint of the 1925 ed.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The Elizabethan voyagers. Dryden. The eighteenth century. Thomas Warton. Horace Walpole. The politics of Burns. Joseph Ritson. Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott's Scotland. Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's Well. Byron. Keats. Hazlitt. Tennyson. Browning. Essays in romantic literature. Divina commedia. Italian romance; Boiardo. Tasso. Molière.; title: v. 2. Pascal. Spanish and English ballads. Don Quixote. The Spanish story of the Armada. On the Danish ballads, I. On the Danish ballads, II. Iceland and the humanities. The early historians of Norway. Gudmund Arason. Sturla the historian. Jón Arason. Jacob Grimm. On the philosophy of art. Imagination and judgment. On the philosophy of history. Allegory and myth. Romance. On the value of the terms "classical" and "romantic" as applied to literature. The humanist ideal.