Shelburne Essays
By Paul Elmer More
5 vols. Crown octavo.
Sold separately. Net, $1.25. (By mail, $1.35)
Contents
First Series: A Hermit's Notes on Thoreau—The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne—The Origins of Hawthorne and Poe—The Influence of Emerson—The Spirit of Carlyle—The Science of English Verse—Arthur Symons: The Two Illusions—The Epic of Ireland— Two Poets of the Irish Movement—Tolstoy; or, The Ancient Feud between Philosophy and Art— The Religious Ground of Humanitarianism.
Second Series: Elizabethan Sonnets—Shakespeare's Sonnets—Lafcadio Hearn—The First Complete Edition of Hazlitt—Charles Lamb—Kipling and FitzGerald—George Crabbe —The Novels of George Meredith—Hawthorne: Looking before and after—Delphi and Greek Literature—Nemesis: or, The Divine Envy.
Third Series: The Correspondence of William Cowper—Whittier the Poet—The Centenary of Sainte-Beuve—The Scotch Novels and Scotch History—Swinburne— Christina Rossetti—Why is Browning Popular?—A Note on Byron's "Don Juan"—Laurence Sterne—J. Henry Shorthouse—The Quest.
Fourth Series: The Vicar of Morwenstow—Fanny Burney—A Note on "Daddy" Crisp—George Herbert—John Keats—Benjamin Franklin—Charles Lamb Again—Walt Whitman—William Blake—The Theme of Paradise Lost —The Letters of Horace Walpole.
Firth Series: The Greek Anthology—The Praise of Dickens—George Gissing—Mrs. Gaskell—Philip Freneau—Thoreau's Journal—The Centenary of Longfellow— Donald G. Mitchell—James Thomson ("B. V.")—Chesterfield—Sir Henry Watton.
