Author: William Innes Addison
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
John Snell (1628/9-1679) was born in Ayrshire, the son of a blacksmith, and died in Oxford, where his brother-in-law was the university registrar. During his lifetime he had been a benefactor of his Alma Mater, Glasgow University but he left the proceeds of his estate in trust for the "mayntenance and education in some Colledge or Hall" at Oxford of at least five of his countrymen who had spent at least one year at the "Colledge of Glascow." Among the beneficiaries are James Stirling, Adam Smith, Matthew Bailie, John Gibson Lockhart, Archibald Campbell Tait, John Campbell Shairp, William Young Sellar, Edward Caird, Andrew Lang, William Paton Ker and George Douglas Brown
The Snell Exhibitions
Author: William Innes Addison
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
John Snell (1628/9-1679) was born in Ayrshire, the son of a blacksmith, and died in Oxford, where his brother-in-law was the university registrar. During his lifetime he had been a benefactor of his Alma Mater, Glasgow University but he left the proceeds of his estate in trust for the "mayntenance and education in some Colledge or Hall" at Oxford of at least five of his countrymen who had spent at least one year at the "Colledge of Glascow." Among the beneficiaries are James Stirling, Adam Smith, Matthew Bailie, John Gibson Lockhart, Archibald Campbell Tait, John Campbell Shairp, William Young Sellar, Edward Caird, Andrew Lang, William Paton Ker and George Douglas Brown
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
John Snell (1628/9-1679) was born in Ayrshire, the son of a blacksmith, and died in Oxford, where his brother-in-law was the university registrar. During his lifetime he had been a benefactor of his Alma Mater, Glasgow University but he left the proceeds of his estate in trust for the "mayntenance and education in some Colledge or Hall" at Oxford of at least five of his countrymen who had spent at least one year at the "Colledge of Glascow." Among the beneficiaries are James Stirling, Adam Smith, Matthew Bailie, John Gibson Lockhart, Archibald Campbell Tait, John Campbell Shairp, William Young Sellar, Edward Caird, Andrew Lang, William Paton Ker and George Douglas Brown
The Modern Poet
Author: Robert Crawford
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191589322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191589322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.
Andrew Lang
Author: John Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192866877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential men of letters and reviewers of his day. He was a founding member and later President of the Folklore Society, and, with his wife, helped transform the taste in children's literature with their anthologized fairy stories for young people. G. K. Chesterton, paying tribute on Lang's death in 1912 to the scale and diversity of his legacy to the humanities, compared him to a 'kind of Indian god with a hundred hands'. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished correspondence and new sources of information, this first full biography of Lang documents in compelling detail his double existence as a scholar and journalist, the intellectual impact of his cross-disciplinary approach to learning and writing, and the critical controversies he courted as a writer and thinker to advance knowledge in the human sciences. The book also throws new light on Lang's personal life: on the uncomfortable legacy of his grandfather, whose notorious part in the Sutherland Clearances earlier in the century left its mark on the family; on the enduring influence on him of his early Scottish education and its generalist traditions of learning; and on his friendships with fellow writers, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rider Haggard, Edmund Gosse, Rhoda Broughton, and William Henley. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who lived one of the most productive lives in literature, sought to make knowledge available to everyone, and bridged, as no other, the university and the literary world, the proverbial 'Grub Street and the ivory tower'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192866877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential men of letters and reviewers of his day. He was a founding member and later President of the Folklore Society, and, with his wife, helped transform the taste in children's literature with their anthologized fairy stories for young people. G. K. Chesterton, paying tribute on Lang's death in 1912 to the scale and diversity of his legacy to the humanities, compared him to a 'kind of Indian god with a hundred hands'. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished correspondence and new sources of information, this first full biography of Lang documents in compelling detail his double existence as a scholar and journalist, the intellectual impact of his cross-disciplinary approach to learning and writing, and the critical controversies he courted as a writer and thinker to advance knowledge in the human sciences. The book also throws new light on Lang's personal life: on the uncomfortable legacy of his grandfather, whose notorious part in the Sutherland Clearances earlier in the century left its mark on the family; on the enduring influence on him of his early Scottish education and its generalist traditions of learning; and on his friendships with fellow writers, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rider Haggard, Edmund Gosse, Rhoda Broughton, and William Henley. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who lived one of the most productive lives in literature, sought to make knowledge available to everyone, and bridged, as no other, the university and the literary world, the proverbial 'Grub Street and the ivory tower'.
Glasgow University Calendar
Author: University of Glasgow
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Reference Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets and Plans, &c. Relating to Glasgow in the Library at Barlanark
Author: William Henry Hill
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Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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A history of Scottish ecclesiastical and civil affairs, from the introduction of Christianity
Author: John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A History of Scottish Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs from the introduction of Christianity to the present time
Author: Rev. John MARSHALL (a Minister of the Scottish Episcopal Church.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A History of Scottish Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs
Author: John Marshall (Episcopalian minister.)
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The Spectator
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Oxford
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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