Essays by Divers Hands being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series
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Essays by Divers Hands being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series
Published for Royal Society of Literature by the Boydell Press, 1984-1990
- vol. 43
- vol. 44
- vol. 46
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vol. 46 edited by Raleigh Trevelyan
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of essays in an annually published series. Contributions include: Maurice Cranston on Voltaire; Richard Faber on Sir William Temple; Vivian Green on Cranmer's prose; Gilbert Phelps on Jane Austen; P.J. Kavanagh on Ivor Gurney; John Halperin on Conrad; and D. Gilmour on Lampedusa.
Table of Contents
- Voltaire and the freedom of the press, Maurice Cranston
- the letter, the diary and the telephone, Nigel Nicolson
- Sir William Temple and the Anglo-Dutch friendship, Sir Richard Faber
- Thomas Cranmer, the prayer book and the English language, Reverend Vivian Green
- translation or transformation, the relations of literature and science
- the penny whistle - the problems of writing stories from Shakespeare
- the other Jane Austen, Gilbert Phelps
- Ivor Gurney and the "poetic sensibility", P.J. Kavanagh
- Conrad alone, John Halperin
- Lampedusa - the genius of "The Leopard", Davi Gilmour.
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