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A clerk of Oxenford : essays on literature and life
- Title
- A clerk of Oxenford : essays on literature and life / Gilbert Highet.
- Author
- Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1954.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 272 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- In this collection of essays based upon his radio talks, Highet discusses a range of topics, including Japanese haiku, Icelandic sagas, the Gettysburg Address, and the works of George Orwell, Yeats, Byron, and Tennyson.
- Subject
- Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012
- Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845
- Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939
- Housman, A. E. 1859-1936
- Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham)
- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
- Fantasy fiction > Criticism and interpretation
- Poetry > History and criticism
- Sagas
- Wisdom literature
- Historical fiction
- Invective
- Witches
- Mountaineering
- Fantasy fiction
- Poetry
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- [1.] The arts of prose: Perchance to dream -- One Smith in a billion -- Ice and fire -- Looking back on today -- Books of wisdom -- An eminent historian -- Arms and the woman -- The outsider -- Words and meanings -- The Christians and the lions -- The Gettysburg Address -- [2.] Poetry and poets: What use is poetry? -- Seventeen syllables -- The poet and his vulture -- Rhythm in poetry -- Melody in poetry -- The madness of Hamlet -- The poet and the musician -- A drinking song -- The old wizard -- Professor paradox -- [3.] Imagination and reality: The art of invective -- The witches and their god -- I to the hills will lift up mine eyes -- Kitsch -- A new pleasure -- The philosopher of the atom -- The small flat world -- A bouquet of poison ivy -- Perspectives of science -- Escape.
- LCCN
- 54010897
- OCLC
- ocm00224112
- 224112
- SCSB-2513820
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries