Essays on English and American Literature
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Essays on English and American Literature

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Essays on English and American Literature

About this book

The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of the romance languages and of comparative philology have been always stimulating, often controversial. This collection presents his essays in English and American literature which appeared in various journals and other publications during his lifetime. They range from an explication de texte of three great Middle English poems, through close scrutiny of writings of Donne, Milton, Keats, to a consideration of Edgar Allan Poe and Whitman, and, finally, to one of Yeats' poems. Each of the essays in this collection is illuminated and heightened by Professor Spitzer's careful and imaginative exegesis. The delightful "American Advertising Explained as Popular Art" is included as a sample of Professor Spitzer's commentary on American culture.

Originally published in 1962.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. I. On Yeats's Poem "Leda and the Swan"
  5. II. Explication De Texte Applied to Walt Whitman's Poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
  6. III. "Tears, Idle Tears" Again
  7. IV. A Reinterpretation of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
  8. V. The "Ode on a Grecian Urn," or Content VS. Metagrammar
  9. VI. Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn"
  10. VII. Understanding Milton
  11. VIII. Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"
  12. IX. Three Poems on Ecstasy: John Donne, St. John of the Cross, Richard Wagner
  13. X. Spenser, "Shepheardes Calendar, March" (Lines 61-114) and the Variorum Edition
  14. XI. Explication De Texte Applied to Three Great Middle English Poems
  15. Appendix: American Advertising Explained as Popular Art