See also:EDWARD See also:DOWDEN (1843- )
, Irish critic and poet, son of See also:John See also:Wheeler See also:Dowden, See also:merchant and landowner, was See also:born at See also:Cork on the 3rd of May 1843, being three years junior to his See also:brother John, who became See also:bishop of See also:Edinburgh in 1886
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His See also:literary tastes were shown See also:early, in a See also:series of essays written at the See also:age of twelve
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His See also:home See also:education was continued at See also:Queen's See also:College, Cork, and Trinity College, See also:Dublin; at the latter university he had a distinguished career, becoming See also:president of the Philosophical Society, and winning the See also:vice-See also:chancellor's See also:prize for See also:English See also:verse and See also:prose, and the first See also:senior moderatorship in See also:ethics and See also:logic
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In 1867 he was elected See also:professor of See also:oratory and English literature in Dublin University
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His first See also:book, See also:Shakespeare, his Mind and See also:Art (1875), was a revision of a course of lectures, and made him widely known as a critic, being translated into See also:German and See also:Russian; and his Poems (1876) went into a second edition
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His Shakespeare Primer (1877) was also translated into See also:Italian and German
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In 1878 he was awarded the See also:Cunningham See also:gold See also:medal of the Royal Irish See also:Academy " for his literary writings, especially in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of Shakespearian See also:criticism." Later See also:works by him in this field were his Shakespeare's Sonnets (1881), Passionate See also:Pilgrim (1883), Introduction to Shakespeare (1893), See also:Hamlet (1899), Romeo and Juliet (190o), Cymbeline (1903), and his See also:article (See also:National See also:Review, See also:July 1902) on " Shakespeare as a See also:Man of See also:Science," criticizing T
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See also:Webb's See also:Mystery of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Shakespeare
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His See also:critical essays " Studies in Literature " (1878), " Transcripts and Studies " (1888), " New Studies in Literature " (1895) showed a profound knowledge of the currents and tendencies of thought in various ages and countries; but it was his See also:Life of See also:Shelley (1886) that made him best known to the public at large
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In 1900 he edited an edition of Shelley's works
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Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature are his See also:Southey (in the " English Men of Letters " series, 188o), his edition of Southey's See also:Correspondence with See also:Caroline See also:Bowles (1881), and Select Poems of Southey (1895), his Correspondence of See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (1888), his edition of See also:Wordsworth's Poetical Works (1892) and of his Lyrical See also:Ballads (1890), his See also:French Revolution and English Literature (1897; lectures given at See also:Princeton University in 1896), See also:History of French Literature (1897), Puritan and See also:Anglican (1900), See also:Robert See also:Browning (1904) and See also:Michel de See also:Montaigne (1905)
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His devotion to See also:Goethe led to his succeeding Max See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller in 1888 as president of the English Goethe Society
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In 1889 he became the first Taylorian lecturer at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and from 1892 to 1896 was See also:Clark lecturer at Trinity College, See also:Cambridge
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To his sagacity in See also:research are due, among other matters of literary See also:interest, the first See also:account of See also:Carlyle's
"Lectures on periods of See also:European culture "; the See also:identification of Shelley as the author of a review (in The Critical Review of See also:December 1814) of a lost See also:romance by See also:Hogg; description of Shelley's " Philosophical View of Reform "; a MS. See also:diary of See also:Fabre D'See also:Eglantine; and a See also:record by Dr Wilhelm Weissenborn of Goethe's last days and See also:death
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He also discovered a " Narrative of a Prisoner of See also:War under See also:Napoleon " (published in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine), an unknown pamphlet by Bishop See also:Berkeley, some unpublished writings of See also:Hayley See also:relating to See also:Cowper, and a unique copy of the Tales of Terror
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His wide sympathies and scholarly methods made his See also:influence on criticism both See also:sound and stimulating, and his own ideals are well described in his See also:essay on " The See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
Interpretation of Literature " in his Transcripts and Studies
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As See also:commissioner of education in See also:Ireland (1896-1901), trustee of the National Library of Ireland, secretary of the Irish Liberal See also:Union and vice-president of the Irish Unionist See also:Alliance, he enforced his view that literature should not be divorced from See also:practical life
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He married twice, first (1866) See also:Mary See also:Clerke, and secondly (1895) See also:Elizabeth See also:Dickinson See also:West, daughter of the See also:dean of St See also:Patrick's
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