Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the reign of Elizabeth there came a time of sound government when men had leisure to look around them. England was then taking an active part in the affairs of the world. The reformation was bringing before men's minds new and glorious thoughts of freedom. Above all, America was being explored and settled. It was a new country. People felt that antiquity had not exhausted everything, but that here were new fields for investigation opened to them. It was a time of great and general animation such as was very favorable to poetry...
...fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish wife) perished in the flames. His own death followed soon, on January 16, 1599. He was carried...
...period covered in the lecture was from Chaucer to Elizabeth. The first poet of note was John Barbour who was born in 1320. In 1375 he wrote his story of Robert the First, called, "The Bruce." The language was the Northern English much like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn...
...other articles of the number are: "Proletarian Paris" by Theodore Child; "Why we left Russia" by Poultney Bigelow; "Tennyson" by Annie Fields; and a number of stories by Elizabeth Stuart Phelphs Ward, Henry Van Dyke, and Constance Fennimore Woolson...
...another is Miss Alice C. Fletcher's "Personal Studies of Indian Life" setting forth the "Politics and Pipe-Dancing" of the tribe of Omaha Indians, and a third is two papers on "The Great Wall of China" giving good pictures in text and illustration of that wonderful wall. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has an interesting article on Whittier, with a portrait of the poet for the frontispiece. The article is full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library...