Adventures in Criticism
Cambridge University Press, 3/9/2009
EAN 9780521736787, ISBN10: 0521736781
Paperback, 236 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), who often published under the pen-name of 'Q', was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism. A novelist and poet who was also a Professor of English, he helped to form the literary tastes of generations of literary students and scholars who came after him. The freshness, enthusiasm and intellectual insight of his work is still evident in his writings nearly a century on. Cambridge University Press is delighted to reissue some of his key texts in this new edition. Early in his career Quiller-Couch made many short contributions to the periodical The Speaker. The articles collected here address subjects as diverse as 'Robinson Crusoe' and Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Popular Conception of a Poet' and 'Who wrote the Odyssey?"
1. Samuel Daniel
2. William Browne
3. Thomas Carew
4. Robinson Crusoe
5. Of Oliver Goldsmith and a Printer's Devil
6. Laurence Sterne
7. Scott and Burns
8. Henry Kingsley
9. Alexander William Kingslake
10. C. S. C and J. K. S.
11. Robert Louis Stevenson
12. M. Zola
13. Selection
14. Externals
15. Excursionists in Poetry
16. The Popular Conception of a Poet
17. Poets on their own Art
18. The Attitude of the Public Towards Letters
19. The Poor Littlle Penny Dreadful
20. Ibsen's Peer Gynt
21. A Morning with a Book
22. Mr John Davidson
23. Björnstjerne Björnson
24. Mr George Moore
25. Mr Anthony Hope
26. Trilby
27. Of Seasonable Numbers
28. Who Wrote the Odyssey?