TY - BOOK AU - Lowell,James Russell AU - Mordell,Albert TI - The function of the poet, and other essays AV - PS 2315 .M6 PY - 1967///, c1920] CY - Port Washington, N.Y. PB - Kennikat Press KW - Literature KW - History and criticism N1 - The function of the poet.--Humor, wit, fun, and satire.--The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare).--The imagination.--Critical fragments.--Henry James: James' tales and sketches.--Longfellow: The courtship of Miles Standish. Tales of a wayside inn.--Whittier: In war time, and other poems. Home ballads and poems. Snowbound: a winter idyl.--Poetry and nationality.--W. D. Howells: Venetian life.--Edgar A. Poe.--Thackeray: Roundabout papers.--Swift: Forster's life of Swift.--Plutarch's morals.--A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers ER -