Sallies of the mind /

Sallies of the Mind is a collection of Fergusson's essays drawn from a variety of virtually unattainable works. It incorporates Fergusson's representative criticism on such major authors as Dante, Shakespeare, James and Eliot, on myths as well as action, on the modern stage and on the mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fergusson, Francis
Other Authors: McCormick, John, 1918-2010, Core, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [1998]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. T.S. Eliot and His Impersonal Theory of Art (1927)
  • 2. Humanism (1930)
  • 3. Maritain's Creative Intuition (1963)
  • 4. Two Perspectives on European Literature (1954)
  • 5. Two Acts from Dante's Drama of the Mind (1951)
  • 6. Divine Comedy as a Bridge across Time (1965)
  • 7. Prince of Denmark: The Analogy of Action (1940)
  • 8. Human Government: Purgatorio 16 and Measure for Measure (1951)
  • 9. Belief and Make-Believe: Poetry as Evidence of Things Not Seen (1973)
  • 10. Eugene O'Neill (1930)
  • 11. Exiles and Ibsen's Work (1932)
  • 12. T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama (1952)
  • 13. On the Edge of Broadway (1954)
  • 14. Theater of Paul Valery (1960).