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See also:DOWDEN, See also:EDWARD (1843- ) , Irish critic and poet, son of See also:John See also:Wheeler 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. 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. 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. In 1867 he was elected See also:professor of See also:oratory and English literature in Dublin University. 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. His Shakespeare Primer (1877) was also translated into See also:Italian and German. 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. E. 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. 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. In 1900 he edited an edition of Shelley's works. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
End of Article: DOWDEN, EDWARD (1843- )
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