Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland gave the first of a series of two readings in English literature in Sever Hall yesterday afternoon. His special subject was the prose and poetry of the seventeenth century. Next Thursday afternoon the selections will be taken from Stedman's "Victorian Anthology...
...Public Readings.Two readings,- one from the poetry and prose of the seventeenth century, the other from the "Victorian Anthology,"- will be given in Sever Hall by Mr. Copeland, Thursdays, Oct. 22d and 29th, at four o'clock. These readings will be open to the public...
...Victorian Anthology," edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman, has just appeared from the press of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ($2.50). It contains "Selections illustrating the editor's critical Review of English Poetry in the Reign of Victoria." The work is carefully compiled and valuable as a reference book...
...Sever 5 Mr. C. H. C. Wright '91 read his Bowdoing Prize Dissertation on "The Influence of Contemporary French Literature upon that of England and America during the past Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing...