I Thornton Wilder is the only writer who has received the Pulitzer award for both the novel
and the drama. This is a singular tribute to a writer who, in an age of social and economic …

Yet, though Leavis saw this language as the indispensable source of'English Literature', he
no longer regarded it as an active constituent of modern English life. To understand the …

IF Henry James had counted the publication of Robert Elsmere as a public occasion, the
appearance of The History of David Grieve in 1892 was no less momentous; Macmillans, at …

The aim of this article is to challenge the prevailing view that English education has
neglected the work of Emile Durkheim. In opposition to this view it will be argued that …

FOR the last few years Shakespeare studies have been dominated by questions of
authorship. A new poem and even a new play have been claimed. Whether or not found …

Lawrence Durrell's international fame is based on The Alexandria Quartet novels, Justine,
Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea, but this many-sided writer had already acquired a …

discounted because he so frequently made his friend the object of raillery, but his
playfulness was always at the expense of the accidents, not of the essence, of Dyer's …

Henry Harbaugh was a German Reformed pastor in Pennsylvania from 1843 until his death
in 1867 at the age of fifty. Although he is little known outside the ranks of those familiar with …

In the eighteen-sixties, Arnold was much concerned about the lack of organization in English
intellectual life. He compared the “crudeness, provincialism, eccentricity, violence …