Tuesdays at Ten: A Garnering from the Talks of Thirty Years on Poets Hardcover - 1928

Philadelphia / London: University of Pennsylvania Press / Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 325 pages, indexed. The preliminaries and end papers are lightly foxed, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. Cornelius Weygandt (1871-1957) "...his return to the University of Pennsylvania in 1897 marked the beginning of a fifty-five year career as a teacher in the Department of English. He held the appointment as an Instructor from 1897 to 1904, Assistant Professor of English from 1904 to 1908 and as a full Professor in English Literature from 1908 to 1952. Weygandt was known at Penn for beginning the practice of lecturing on contemporary writers rather than ending the lectures with literature up to 1870. As early as the session of 1898-99 he was teaching a course on contemporary poetry. His skill as an engaging storyteller who taught his students how to understand literature through comparison to real-life experiences made his courses extremely popular with undergraduates. Generations of students who attended the University during this period remembered fondly his classes and the lessons they learned from them. Cornelius Weygandt's storytelling skills brought him literary success. His exposure to the Irish literary influenced his writing with something he called higher provincialism." (Uni. Penn. - English Dept) CONTENTS: Preface Contents 1.The Dramas of Dunsany. Swans 2. A Selborne Pilgrimage. A Late Harvest at Lake Louise 3. Lionel Johnson, English Irishman. A True Gentleman Farmer 4. Yorick Out-of-Doors. The Porcupine Takes his Cue 5. The Muses in Germantown. On the Canyon's Edge 6. The Birds of Arabia Deserta. The Real Laurel 7. The Riddling of James Stephens. The Most Beautiful Thing in America 8. Fifty Years of Play going. Sudden Changes 9. With Yeats in the Woods of Coole. From Lady to Lout 10. The Countriness of John Burroughs. The Orcadian 11. Francis Thompson, Poet and Pariah. The Tread of the Black Giants 12. The Rise and Fall of Stephen Phillips. The Grand Style in Nature 13. Austin Dobson, Augustan. Mistah Moreton in Heaven 14. Dr. Douglas Hyde and his Songs of Connacht. A Parlor Table Book of Yesterday 15. The Out-of-Door Essays of W. H. Hudson. A Bridge to Autumn 16. The Plays and Poetry of John Masefield. Flittermouse Index.