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Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (open access)

Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This thesis attempts to explain the Anglo-Saxon influence on Hopkins's poetry by providing a biographical study of his life to determine when he acquired knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Youngblood, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Critical Commentary, 1798-1968 (open access)

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Critical Commentary, 1798-1968

The new elements in "The Ancient Mariner" were partly responsible for the unfavorable early reviews which vary much from the high praise the poem receives today. The purpose of this study is to record critical opinion of the poem from the contemporary reviews of 1798 to the intensive critical analysis of the 1960's.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Schlueter, Helen V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Indian Figure in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and William Gilmore Simm's The Yemassee (open access)

The Indian Figure in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and William Gilmore Simm's The Yemassee

Though it is important to establish the authenticity of Cooper's and Simm's thematic and historical Indians, it is more important to show that the writers were accurate in their delineation of the customs, personalities, and thoughts of the Indian tribes represented in the two books.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Maness, Ella Mae
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frustration and Quest in the Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (open access)

Frustration and Quest in the Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

A careful examination of the creative writing of T. S. Eliot reveals that his poetry can be divided for purposed of consideration into two phases. The first phase refers to those poems written up to and including "The Hollow Men". These early poems can best be grouped together and characterized by the term frustration. The poetry of the second phase, written after "The Hollow Man," is dominated by and best considered in regard to a quest for the ideal.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Parker, Donald G.
System: The UNT Digital Library