The Reader's Guide to the Encyclopaedia Britannica; A Handbook Containing Sixty-Six Courses of Systematic Study or Occasional Reading (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... The same author's articles Sonnet (Vol. 25, p. 414), Matthew ArNold (Vol. 2. p. 635), and Wycherley (Vol. 28, p. 863) should be studied with the article Poetry as supplementing his literary philosophy. The greatest of literary forms is amply represented by the space and the authority given to it in the Britannica. The article Drama (Vol. 8, p. 475; equivalent to 225 pages of this Guide) is mainly the work of Prof. A. W. Ward, master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, editor of the Cambridge History of English Literature and of the Cambridge Modern History; but some parts of the article are by William Archer, the dramatic critic, and by Auguste Filon ("Pierre Sandrte"). This elaborate article should be supplemented by the short article Comedy (Vol. 6, p. 759) and by the biographical and critical sketches of the great dramatists. Among the many other articles in the Britannica on the forms of literature are: Satire (Vol. 24, p. 228), by Richard Garnett, late librarian British Museum, with which the student may well combine the articles Humour and Irony, the articles Ballade, Ballads (Lang), BuColics, Pastoral, Cento, Chant Royal (with Gosse's first English chant royal, "The Praise of Dionysus," transcribed in full), Descriptive Poetry, Elegy, Epic Poetry, Epithalamium, Heroic Verse, Idyl, Limerick, Lyrical Poetry, MacAronics, National Anthems, Ode, OtTava Rima, Pantun, Rime Royal, RondEau, Rondel, Sestett, Sestina, Song, Triolet, Vers De Societe, Vilanelle, Virelay, and--a few of the prose forms, Biography, Conte, Criticism, Epistle, Essay, Euphuism, Novel, Pamphlet, Picaresque Novel, Romance, Tale, Tract, --nearly all these being by Edmund Gosse. Two articles of the utmost importance are Dictionary and EncyClopaedia. Read the...