Gunsaulus, Frank W. Higher ministries of recent English poetry. **$1.25. Revell.
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“The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.
“Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three masters of the last century.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w. |
“Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w. |
“Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject. And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |