"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all …
From the noted artist and father of the celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats comes this short collection of essays on the literary lif…
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll's essay, and Kay Williams, an authentic Scotsman, reading Burns' poetry. Robert Burns (25 J…
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
"I had accepted an invitation to deliver three lectures in French in the town-hall of Warsaw." Thus begins the description of the …
This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…
A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here …
The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…