Title: The Library of Entertainment: Handbook
Author: John Chilton Scammell
Release date: February 18, 2016 [eBook #51248]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
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A THOUSAND HOURS OF ENJOYMENT WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT WRITERS
HANDBOOK
By JOHN CHILTON SCAMMELL, A.B.
CHICAGO AND BOSTON
GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
MCMXX
| PAGE | |
| Preface | v |
| The Purpose of this Book | xi |
| PART I | |
| Side-lights on Great Writers | 1 |
| 'To Drive Dull Care Away' | 12 |
| PART II | |
| The Study of Literature | 17 |
| The Decisive Periods in Literature | 19 |
| National Characteristics | 28 |
| The Divisions of Literature | 36 |
| From Seven to Twenty-one | 54a |
| The Use of the Index and the Biographical Sketches | 54m |
| Literary Criticism | 55 |
| PART III | |
| Studies of Great Authors | 61 |
| Burns | 61 |
| Scott | 64 |
| Wordsworth | 67 |
| Coleridge | 70 |
| Byron | 72 |
| Shelley | 76 |
| Keats | 78 |
| Tennyson | 81 |
| Browning, R. | 83 |
| Browning, E. B. | 86 |
| Irving | 89 |
| Poe | 91 |
| Hawthorne | 94 |
| Bryant | 97 |
| Longfellow | 99 |
| Whittier | 102 |
| Lowell | 104 |
| Holmes | 107 |
| Homer | 109 |
| Vergil | 113 |
| Dante | 116 |
| Milton | 119 |
| Shakespeare | 122 |
| Goethe | 126 |
| Schiller | 129 |
| Dickens | 131 |
| Thackeray | 134 |
| Johnson | 136 |
| Goldsmith | 139 |
| Gray | 141 |
| Burke | 143 |
| Webster | 146 |
| Plato | 148 |
| Aurelius | 151 |
| Bacon | 153 |
| Carlyle | 156 |
| Ruskin | 159 |
| Emerson | 162 |
| Heine | 164 |
| Pliny | 166 |