...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Stu... ...sics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...lections of the artist he knows not why, those irrational acceptations and recognitions, reclaim, out of the world that we have not yet realised, ever... ...e find it hard to fit it exactly with the expressions of our philosophical speech. It is this idea which underlies and issues from a romance, this som... ... infringement of dramatic propriety that a great deal of the humour of the speeches depends for its existence and effect. Indeed, Burns was so full of... ...ement. In many different authors you may find passages more remarkable for grammar, but few of a more ingenious turn, and none that could be more to t... ...ut saw him immediately to lose him. It is easy enough to pick holes in the grammar of this let- ter, but what are we to say of its profound goodness a... ...The same remark applies to a subsequent legacy of the poet’s library, with specification of one work which was plainly neither decent nor devout. We a... ...s vieil synge est desplaisant.” It is not the old jester who receives most recognition at a tavern party, but the young fellow, fresh and handsome, wh...

.......... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THO...