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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...volume of selections from William Morris's poems entitled Atalanta's Race and Other Lules from The Earthly Paradise. The little volume is edited by Oscar Fay Adams, well known in literary circles both in and out of Cambridge, with the assistance of Prof, William J. Rolfe, the Shakespearian scholar. The book is mainly designed for young students of English literature, who, lacking time for an exhaustive study, are still desirous of becoming familiar with William Morris's work. Mr. Adams's selection of poems seems to be a very happy one for this purpose. The introduction, though short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review | 11/1/1888 | See Source »

David Masson, professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh, delivered a lecture in that city on Tuesday last, in the course of which he characterized Ignatius Donnelley's Shakespearian cryptogram as miserable drivel and a tissue of arithmetic puzzles which would be hissed at in Bedlam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/27/1888 | See Source »

...least half a dozen very interesting and valuable electives. In English V and XII the instructor has suggested a number of topics for individual work during the last half year, topics which could, without too much dilution, be taken up as the subjects for regular lectures. Courses in pre-Shakespearian drama, on Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in play-writing, on the development of English fiction, on English verse in its several kinds and stages, on the English essayists, and many similar subjects, would all be very useful. Or, it might possibly be better to have courses arranged to cover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1886 | See Source »

Frank Mayo will star next season in Shakespearian drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

Frank Mayo is appearing in Shakespearian tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. | 2/21/1882 | See Source »

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