Collected essays.
By: Edited with an introd. by Charles Whibley.
Publisher: Russell & Russell
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Reissue 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.