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Lowell as a Critic of the Major English Poets

Abstract

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It has often been pointed out, but not so easily illustrated, that a study of the particular often leads to a better understanding of the general. I mean to supply that lack of illustration. In my ease the general refers to that broad field of literary criticism from Socrates to today in which I have been mildly interested for some time. The need for a particular point of concentration brought to mind an essay on Dryden I had read somewhere awhile ago. It was not a particularly erudite work as I recalled, but it had introduced me to Dryden in so charming a manner that I had not forgotten him. The author, I soon discovered, was James Hussell Lowell, but that was the very least of my discoveries, as I hope I have made clear in the following pages, however, not only have I learned about Lowell, whom I now realize is the first American critic of importance, but (to return to my illustration) I believe I have come a little closer that great body of critical knowledge by this examination of one of its members.

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Creighton University
Year dc:date.issued
1941

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Kirkhoff, Kathryn Marie
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  • A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.
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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/92147
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oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/92147

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Kirkhoff, Kathryn Marie. Lowell as a Critic of the Major English Poets. Creighton University, 1941. http://hdl.handle.net/10504/92147