1st Edition

Sallies of the Mind

By Francis Fergusson Copyright 1998
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

253 Pages
by Routledge

Francis Fergusson was one of the foremost American literary critics and scholars of the twentieth century. A man of the theater as well as a man of letters, Fergusson's versatility and mastery traversed a wide range of intellectual disciplines. As George Core notes: "one of the most remarkable aspects of Fergusson's criticism is that it stands comfortably, at ease, with the best work stemming... Read more
I. 1. T. S. Eliot and His Impersonal Theory of Art (1927) 2. Humanism (1930) 3. Maritain’s Creative Intuition (1963) II 4. Two Perspectives on European Literature (1954) 5. Two Acts from Dante’s Drama of the Mind (1951) 6. The Divine Comedy as a Bridge across Time (1965) III 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) IV 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. The Theater of Paul Valéry (1960) 15. Oedipus According to Freud, Sophocles, and Cocteau (1975) V 16. D. H. Lawrence’s Sensibility (1933) 17. The Drama in The Golden Bowl (1934) 18. Three Novels (1954) VI 19. “Myth” and the Literary Scruple (1956) 20. The Notion of “Action” (1964)

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Francis Fergusson