Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American literature, as a nineteenth century product, has been justly relegated to the mediocrities. American poets sometimes reached the second rung of the ladder; several prose writers attained peerage with their English contemporaries. But on the whole, even where Americans mastered technique, it is generally conceded that their field of expression was always restricted and often provincial...
Sandberg's masculine vigor exists only in the booming, tough language he cases. In his fundamental ideas and attitude his sentimentality is as bad as that of the most maligned of nineteenth century writers. This is best illustrated in the way he writes about the working class whom he professes to champion. Undoubtedly he does champion them, but he also weeps over their oppression, and is constantly setting them up in potential, and terrible revolution against the ruling classes. Moreover, Sandberg is not really one of the working class because they do not read him. His readers consist mostly...
After tracing the development of the Russian revolution and Soviet government through the nineteenth century to the present day. Mr. Franz Deak in his talk at the Liberal Club last night, arrived at the conclusion that the same tendencies and especially the same internal situation are evident in the Russia of today as in the Russia of fifty years...
There are lectures, however, which I can think about between snuffles. Pro-Professor Gay in Harvard I will be giving a summary of the economic progress of the nineteenth century at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock, Professor Whitney will give the lecture which has the best chance to triumph over my weakened condition, in Emerson J. The Plelade Cement Marot, Montaigne and Pascal, great names of the high Renaissance in France, will be his subject.--Then there are at noon Professor Demos in Emerson A, on "Ethics as an Art," and Professor Hill in his Cast lecture...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who has taught in the Harvard Summer School for many years, will give a course this summer on the History of English literature during the nineteenth century, and will also give several readings which will be open to the public...