COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES
LECTURES ON LITERATURE
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THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1911
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By the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1911. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. NOTE
These lectures by members of the Faculty of Columbia University were delivered, with one exception, during the academic year 1909-1910.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LECTURE
PAGE
| I. | 1 |
By Brander Matthews, Professor of Dramatic Literature.
ORIENTAL LITERATURES
| II. | 21 |
By Richard J. H. Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic Languages.
| III. | 43 |
By A. V. W. Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages.
| IV. | 67 |
By Friedrich Hirth, Professor of Chinese.
CLASSICAL LITERATURES
| V. | 91 |
By Edward Delavan Perry, Jay Professor of Greek.
| VI. | 115 |
By Nelson Glenn McCrea, Professor of Latin.
LITERARY EPOCHS
| VII. | 133 |
By William Witherle Lawrence, Associate Professor of English.
| VIII. | 155 |
By Jefferson B. Fletcher, Professor of Comparative Literature.
| IX. | 177 |
By John Erskine, Associate Professor of English.
| X. | 203 |
By Curtis Hidden Page, sometime Adjunct Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures.
MODERN LITERATURES
| XI. | 219 |
By Carlo L. Speranza, Professor of Italian.
| XII. | 233 |
By Henry Alfred Todd, Professor of Romance Philology.
| XIII. | 251 |
By Ashley H. Thorndike, Professor of English.
| XIV. | 273 |
By Adolphe Cohn, Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures.
| XV. | 291 |
By Calvin Thomas, Gerhard Professor of the Germanic Languages and Literatures.
| XVI. | 311 |
By J. A. Joffe, Lecturer on Slavonic Literature.
| XVII. | 333 |
By William P. Trent, Professor of English Literature.
CONCLUSION
| XVIII. | 355 |
By J. E. Spingarn, Professor of Comparative Literature.
| 375 |