Great Writers Part One Beacon Lights Of History Volume Seven

1885. Volume Seven of Eight. This volume contains Part I. Great Writers: Dr. Lord's uncompleted plan, supplemented with essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge and Mercer Adam. The Beacon Lights of History is a series of lectures by Dr. Lord, who has been called the artistic historian, setting forth the great epochs and master minds of civilization-a biographical history of the world's life. Contents Part I. Rousseau: Socialism and Education; Sir Walter Scott: The Modern Novel; Lord Byron: Poetic Genius; Thomas Carlyle: Criticism and Biography; Lord Macaulay: Artistic Historical Writing; Shakespeare, or the Poet by Emerson; John Milton: Poet and Patriot by Macaulay; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Germany's Greatest Writer by Hedge; and Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Spirit of Modern Poetry by Adam. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417942967.