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John Keats, The Great Romanticist
(Creighton University, 1929)
It is the purpose of this thesis to show that John Keats possessed all the essentially Romantic characteristics of Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, and Wordsworth, plus his own-restraint. A word, by way of introduction on ...
Newman: The Mainspring of the Oxford Movement
(Creighton University, 1929)
The great Oxford Movement, the history of which is ever a subject of keenest interest and deepest study, resulted from a number of causes. According to the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1906, this famous ...
Can the Conduct of Savonarola be Justified!
(Creighton University, 1923-06-22)
In order to arrive at a reasonable and fair solution of the question propounded in our theme we shall first take a brief survey of the state of Italy shortly before and at the time when Savonarola began his life as a member ...
The Bible in English Prose
(Creighton University, 1928)
The purpose of the present thesis is to show the influence of the Bible on English prose writers. To set forth this influence more directly and clearly a number of representative authors from various periods of English ...
The Catholic Element in English Poetry
(Creighton University, 1929)
"Poetry is the soul in vision, in flight, in ecstasy; its charm is tangible’ only by the soul." This definition of poetry gives the sum total of its essence. Poetry reguires(sic) soul appreciation. There is something of ...
The Philosophy of Heretics and Orthodoxy
(Creighton University, 1929)
The aim of this study is to Interpret and analyze the philosophical Ideas of Q. K. Chesterton, as they were expressed in his early philosophical books, especially in Heretics and Orthodoxy.
Literary Art and Convert Writers
(Creighton University, 1928)
Art is the result or accomplishment of the creative faculty which employs imagery to work upon the subtler emotions of the human soul. It is more than intellectual skill, more too than merely physical beauty, more indeed ...
Joan of Arc, Her Imprisonment, Trial and Death
(Creighton University, 1928)
"The fairest things have sweetest end. Their scent survives their close. But the rose's scent is bitterness. To him. that loved the rose."-- Francis Thompson | Those "fairest things" are verified in the life of Joan of ...
The Influence of St. Gregory the Great
(Creighton University, 1925)
The word "Great" has justly been attributed to St. Gregory who stands as a dividing mark between the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, and who, undoubtedly, did more than any other one individual to direct the course of ...
Narrative History of the Knickerbocker Magazine
(Creighton University, 1929)
This thesis presents for the most part a narrative history of the Knickerbocker Magazine. The author has tried to bring out the type of periodical that the Knickerbocker belonged to, and something of its aims and influences. ...