Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author and not a coarse one. It is bad to get into literature by the back door,- as witness the obscenity of the minor Elizabethan drama...
...original point of view. It is an interesting as well as acceptable addition to the pages of criticism which have been written upon the greatest of all English writers. The style of the article is halting and uneven. The writer of the contribution on "Fifty Lyrics from the Elizabethan Dramatists" has attempted to cover a great deal of ground, and as far as he has gone, has succeeded fairly well. The work is appreciative and careful and the style consistent and smooth. The short contribution "Henry the Second" written in oratorical style contains little that is original...
...poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes of the people and worked them into forms of enduring beauty, and why should their example not be followed to-day? The present situation is critical. Education tends to mere materiality, and here lies the great danger of our times. What...
Vassar College has recently received a sum of money for a fund to provide prizes for the best essays on Shakspere or the Elizabethan period...
...John Addington Symonds, whose "Studies of the Greek Poets" is well known, is engaged on a collection of "Studies of the Elizabethan Dramatists...