...Charles B. Shaw Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Bacon Wrote Shakespeare Charles B. Shaw North Carolina College for Women The discovery of an old poem is always a noteworthy event in the literary world. When a poem, so discovered, is defi­ nitely attributed to no less a genius...

... drive or the queerness of crip identity but also of s/m as racist pathology or false consciousness; however, Sedgwick herself takes the discussion in a very different direction. She invited, but never quite wrote, a reparative reading that urges us to question the incapacity of paranoid readings...

...Jenn M. Jackson In August 2020, prominent race scholar and thinker on anti-racism Ibram X. Kendi wrote an article in the Atlantic titled, “Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?” The subtitle read: “Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently...

...B. R. Jerman Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 DISRAELI S AUDIENCE B. R. Jerman BENJAMIN DISRAELI wrote characteristically to Lady Brad­ ford in 1874, I owe everything to woman. Male society, he explained to the same correspondent, was never much to his taste. I require...

... a centu­ ry; recent research has shown that it was not an actual diary and that the Public Man was a synthetic, not a real, person. But the mystery remains: who wrote it? The publisher sank the manuscript without trace and refused to reveal the name of the author. The Diary covers a short but critical...

... recklessly in the aristocratic tradition. A man of three hundred pounds and fine appetite, his death at fifty-two from the lodging of a chicken bone in his intestines was a somewhat proper tragedy. Knox thought lightly of democracy. He wrote once in anger, The State systems are the accursed thing which...

... of this scanty record has in­ vited further acquaintance. It has seemed a pity that William Cullen Bryant, who walked over his own grounds at Great Barrington with Simms and visited him at Woodlands, did not say more when he wrote about his friend; and that Paul Hamilton Hayne did not leave fuller records...

... Institute, where the British were Foe Number One. Dr. Parke, hearing a false rumor of an Anglo-American break, wrote on December, 1855, in his Crimean diary: . . . if tis so, I say let them rip America and Russia can flay the world. . . . say good bye to English rule and English royalty, her days...

... Boswell s admitted admiration was perhaps responsible for a rare show of generosity when he wrote that Beauclerk could take more liberty with him [Johnson] than any body with whom I ever saw him. 13 But Boswell could not forbear adding a moralistic note to the friendship. Beauclerk was too polite...

... with Howards End (1910), was pleased and impressed by the encounter with an intellectual man of action. He wrote this to Lawrence, received no reply, and soon afterwards left for a year in India as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas Senior. Three years later, Siegfried Sassoon asked Forster to read...

... to bed, I the king and you the queen Of that peaceful little green, Without any subject s aid. Four days later in another he said, As t were two summer days in one, Two Sundays come together, Our rays united make one sun With fairest summer weather. They were hardly great poetry Thoreau, after all, wrote...

... he took in a wide variety of public matters. He wrote heatedly about industrial despotism, mis­ treatment of the little man, democracy, political gangsterism, tech­ nocracy, Soviet Russia, Britain s titled snobs, World War II, and the Pullman Company s policy of fostering a superior class, based...

...). Burke in the ij6o,s 549 To anyone new to Burke this volume will be a disappointment. Burke was not a good letter writer. He rarely achieved that effect of intimacy, of speaking solely and confidentially to the reader, which is the essence of good letter writing. He wrote hastily and care­ lessly...

... his religious beliefs but cited his private letters to support their claims.1 One contemporary critic was Clement Moore, famous for his vision of The Night Before Christmas, who wrote Observations Upon Cer­ tain Passages in Mr. Jefferson s Notes on Virginia Which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert...

... the grand-daughter of Washington s stepson. All the influences of descent and mar­ riage alike were directed to inspire him with reverence for the principle of nationality, and to arouse in him solicitude for the perpetuation of the Union as inherited from the founders. As an American citizen, he wrote...

... facts which will aid the student of Timrod in his endeavor to understand the mind and heart of the poet.* The new letters show first of all how keenly sensitive was Timrod s spirit and how much discomfort this sensitiveness caused him at times. On May 8, i860, he wrote to his sister from Bluffton, South...

... into a fairly typical Southern family. At the age of ten, following the death of his father, he was sent to St. Andrew s School, an Episcopal boarding school for boys near Sewanee. Later he went to Exeter and to college at Harvard. He seldom returned to the South but lived and wrote mostly in and around New...

.... But it is something of a surprise that he thought the prefatory sketch The Custom House to be better than The Scarlet Letter; and also that he considered The House of the Seven Gables a better book than The Scarlet Letter, and The Marble Faun much better than the other two romances. Furthermore, he wrote to his...

... of the undoubted fidelity of a considerable number, sent emissaries to the lead­ ing people recommending that they should attend to their harvest, prepare provisions, and remain quiet until the king s troops were ready to enter the province. In July 1780, General Caswell wrote that the majority...

... the sea and not in Paris salons. So Loti found himself snatched away from his budding renown to walk the deck of the cruiser Friedland, Pierre Loti and the Roman d un Spahi 41 bound for the Algerian coast. To his new friend Daudet, he wrote: r I began two or three letters to you, but they were always...