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Rectorial Addresses Delivered at the University of St.Andrews
In this collection of speeches, William Angus Knight explores a wide range of topics related to education, philosophy, and politics. With his characteristic wit and erudition, Knight offers thought-provoking insights into the issues of his time that remain relevant today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Letter from William Hanna, Edinburgh, to William Angus Knight, 1867 February 21
Declining an invitation as he has just announced he will "...retire altogether from the Ministry in May on consequence of the unsatisfactory state of my health for the last year. I could not in the face of that announcement undertake in the mean time any extra work and have declined any thing of the kind - I mention this that you may not think that it is from any want of interest in yourself or in your work in Dundee that I do not come to you and I very cordially desire to see any thing that you are connected with prospering as you could desire.
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" childhood confers on 19th-century poetry and culture, this book draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink familiar concepts such as immortality, the sublime, and the death drive as well as forms and genres such as the pastoral, the ode, and the ballad. Ruderman establishes that infancy emer...
Stand in the Trench, Achilles
A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Letter from William Hanna, Edinburgh, to William Angus Knight, 1869 September 1
Accepting an invitation for the 17th of October, thanking him for his paper on the North British and saying "You have made much too high an estimate of my work - I aimed at something much simpler & humbler than what you say that I have done - But that all the more delights me to be grateful;" adding, in a postscript, "I should have said that I have reason to know that your article has won high approval in many quarters."
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