The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays

The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays

James Russell Lowell, american Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- ON POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES

-04- THE FUNCTION OF THE POET

-05- HUMOR, WIT, FUN, AND SATIRE

-06- PREFATORY NOTE

-07- THE FIVE INDISPENSABLE AUTHORS

-08- THE IMAGINATION

-09- CRITICAL FRAGMENTS

-10- PART I. LIFE IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

-11- PART II. STYLE AND MANNER

-12- PART III. KALEVALA

-13- REVIEWS OF CONTEMPORARIES

-14- HENRY JAMES

-15- LONGFELLOW

-16- THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH

-17- TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN

-18- WHITTIER

-19- IN WAR TIME, AND OTHER POEMS

-20- HOME BALLADS AND POEMS

-21- SNOW BOUND

-22- A WINTER IDYL

-23- POETRY AND NATIONALITY

-24- W.D. HOWELLS

-25- VENETIAN LIFE

-26- EDGAR A. POE

-27- TO HELEN

-28- THACKERAY

-29- ROUNDABOUT PAPERS

-30- TWO GREAT AUTHORS

-31- SWIFT

-32- PLUTARCH'S MORALS

-33- A PLEA FOR FREEDOM FROM SPEECH AND FIGURES OF SPEECH MAKERS