| + — | Philos. R. 14: 590. S. ‘05. 1950w. |
“Deals in a clear and diligent manner with points in Plato’s doctrine of immortality, and reflects ... with somewhat over-exclusiveness the views of the great gods of Trinity.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 40w. |
Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C. Principles and progress of English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Profs. Charles Mills Gayley and Clement C. Young, in their volume on ‘The principles and progress of English poetry, with representative masterpieces and notes,’ have attempted to show through extracts and by a scientific study of rhythm, melody and movement as well as by historical analysis, how English poetry has developed, and how it has been touched by external and internal influences since the days of Chaucer down to those of Tennyson. Each chapter has a separate introduction descriptive of the school to which the poems included in it are supposed to belong.”—N. Y. Times.
“Merits the attention both of the studious reader of poetry, and of the mechanician in verse—particularly of the youthful apprentice in the art of poesy.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 150w. |
“With Professor Gayley’s artistic theory we cannot always agree. It has the great advantage of putting a large amount of poetic phenomena into shape for the student’s use.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 260. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. (Outlines scope.) |
“There is a preface ... devoted to the principles of poetry—a valuable book in itself.”