Selected Essays [Paperback]

This volume of essays, written at various stages of Professor Hough's career, is a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies.This volume consists of essays, written at various stages of Professor Houghs career, on Coleridge, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Poe, Yeats, T.S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, as well as three more on general topics. Together they make up a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies.This volume consists of essays, written at various stages of Professor Houghs career, on Coleridge, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Poe, Yeats, T.S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, as well as three more on general topics. Together they make up a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies.Professor Hough is probably best known for his exceptional work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and particularly for his books The Romantic Poets (1953) and The Last Romantics (1949). This volume consists of essays, written at various stages of his career, on Coleridge, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Poe, Yeats, T.S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, as well as three more on general topics - 'Criticism as a humanist discipline', 'An eighth type of ambiguity' and 'The modernist lyric'. Together they make up a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies, which displays throughout the characteristic precision and insight of Professor Hough's writings.Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Criticism as a humanist discipline; 2. An eighth type of ambiguity; 3. Narrative and dialogue in Jane Austen; 4. The poetry of Coleridge; 5. Coleridge and the Victorians; 6. The natural theology of In Memoriam; 7. Edgar Allan Poe; 8. W. B. Yeats: a study in poetic integration; 9. Vision and doctrine in Four Quartets; Dante and Eliot; 10. Dante and Eliot; 11. John Crowe Ransom: the poet and the critic; 12. The modernist lyric.