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Newman's Love of Nature as an Index of His Spirituality
(Creighton University, 1935)
John Henry Cardinal Newman was horn in London, February 21, 1801. His father wa3 a banker; his mother was Jemima Froudrinier, descended from a well-known Huguenot family. He attended Ealing, a school for boys, and there ...
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Interpretation of Tristram
(Creighton University, 1937)
"The third great epic, Tristram, which was to complete the Arthurian trilogy, so majestically and movingly interpreted the world-famous medieval romance that the outstanding excellence of Robinson's verse, thus far ignored ...
Catholic Teaching in Patmore’s The Angel in the House and the Unknown Eros
(Creighton University, 1937)
The world of today, as at various times in the past, seems to be at a crucial point. This age of science, which was to make man supreme, has apparently only enslaved him through the radical social and religious changes it ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne as Revealed Through His French and Italian Notebooks
(Creighton University, 1936)
The French and Italian Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne are an exception to his other works, in that they reveal not only his peculiar idiosyncrasies, but also characteristics which tend to humanize the man. For over one ...
Religious Experiences Reflected in Works of Aubrey De Vere
(Creighton University, 1936)
This paper deals with the religious experiences of Aubrey De Vere as reflected in his writings and is an attempt to trace them with a view to making one of Ireland's foremost poets better known and appreciated. To this end ...
The Interpretation of Nature by William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy
(Creighton University, 1935)
In view of the important role which Nature plays in the works of William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy, it is not surprising that this influence was predominant in their lives, and that the resulting impression greatly ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Modern Victorian
(Creighton University, 1937)
"It is as a revolutionary poet that he batters at our hearts, being melter and molder' of images, churner of delight and the hot moral anguish, lord and breaker of language." | In such glowing language do many admirers of ...
A Comparison of Chaucer's Nonne Presstes Tale and Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale
(Creighton University, 1930)
"The fable in general, and the beast-fable in particular, are among the very oldest and most universal of the known forms of literature." A fresh and special development of it took place about the twelfth century, or ...
The Symbolism of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Creighton University, 1931)
It is the aim of this prefatory chapter to define symbolism in some manner, to give the reader some notion of the different stages in meaning through which the word has passed and to show the different attitudes toward the ...
The Background of "The Lady of the Lake”'
(Creighton University, 1933)
The advantage, to both teacher and high school pupil, to be derived from having easy access to the data and material for a study of Scott’s "The Lady of the Lake", has urged the author of these pages to assemble this ...