Shaping men and women
Subtitle: essays on literature and life
By: by Stuart Sherman, edited by Jacob Zeitlin.
Contributors: Zeitlin, Jacob, 1883-1937.
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Literature; English literature; Teaching
Notes: "The purpose of this volume is to bring together the essays and addresses in which Stuart Sherman expressed his ideas on the profession in which he spent the greater part of his active life."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Shaping men and women.; title: Graduate schools and literature.; title: Personality in professors.; title: Essays of John Jay Chapman.; title: Professing literature.; title: Professor Kittredge and the teaching of English.; title: An interview with a new comer in New York.; title: English and the Latin question.; title: Lord Chesterfield's ideas on education.; title: Thomas Campion.; title: The gaiety of Socrates.; title: Ford's contribution to the decadence of the drama.; title: Shakespeare, 1616-1916.; title: Appendix: On reading Milton. William Wordsworth. Matthew Arnold: a summary.