TALKS
ON
THE STUDY OF LITERATURE
BY
ARLO BATES
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1897
BY ARLO BATES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This volume is made up from a course of lectures delivered under theauspices of the Lowell Institute in the autumn of 1895. These have beenrevised and to some extent rewritten, and the division into chaptersmade; but there has been no essential change.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | What Literature Is | 1 |
| II. | Literary Expression | 23 |
| III. | The Study of Literature | 33 |
| IV. | Why we Study Literature | 45 |
| V. | False Methods | 60 |
| VI. | Methods of Study | 69 |
| VII. | The Language of Literature | 88 |
| VIII. | The Intangible Language | 111 |
| IX. | The Classics | 123 |
| X. | The Value of the Classics | 135 |
| XI. | The Greater Classics | 142 |
| XII. | Contemporary Literature | 154 |
| XIII. | New Books and Old | 167 |
| XIV. | Fiction | 184 |
| XV. | Fiction and Life | 199 |
| XVI. | Poetry | 219 |
| XVII. | The Texture of Poetry | 227 |
| XVIII. | Poetry and Life | 241... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |