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An investigation into the circumstances relating to the cattle-killing delusion in Kaffraria, 1856-1857

  • Authors: Dowsley, Eileen D'Altera
  • Date: 1932
  • Subjects: Cattle Killing, 1856-1857 , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1853-1871 , Xhosa (African people) -- History , Grey, George, Sir, 1812-1898 , Nongqawuse, 1841-1898 , Mhlakaza -- Xhosa seer -- 1800?-1857 , Sarhili -- Xhosa paramount chief -- ca.1814-1892
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2538 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002390
  • Description: Introductory: If the relations existing between the Native chiefs and the Colony which Sir George Grey found on his arrival are to be fully understood, a brief consideration of Cathcart’s policy and Frontier settlement is necessary. When Cathcart came out as Governor in 1852, he found the rebel chief Sandile, with associate chieftans’ and large bands of followers, still occupying their locations in the Amatola ranges. From this haunt no force had as yet been able to drive them. During the series of skirmishes known as the Eighth Kaffir War, their first crop of Indian corn was destroyed so early in the season as to allow of a second crop springing up. This unusual phenomenon inspired prophet Umlangeni to claim that he had worked a miracle. Fortunately later reverses and the expulsion of Sanailli from his mountain fastness discredited this thoughtful opportunist. Sandilli, as paramount chief of the Gaikas, might have held and influential position in the councils of the Kaffrarian chiefs, that he did not hold such a position, was due, in Charles Brownlee’s opinion, to his timid and suspicious nature and to the fact that his mental capacity was ‘hardly above mediocrity’. He was unable to fight owing to lameness, and he lacked ‘sufficient’ resciution and strength of mind to resist the evil influence of the bad advisers, nevertheless he could be obstinate and he never, to the end of his life, gave up on the idea of getting back to this old locations in the Amatolas. Macomo with some three thousand followers had likewise evaded all attempts to turn him out of this haunts in the mountain range. He, together with his associate the Tambookie chief Quesha, and diverse rebel Hotttentots, indulged in the frequent marauding forays into the surrounding country. Macomo was the eldest of Gaika’s sons and was “allowed by all to be the greatest politician and best warrior in Kaffraria’. During the minority of Sandilli Macomo had acted as his regent and had attained great influence over the tribe; this he afterwards lost for he moved to the neighbourhood of Fort Beaufort, where in a state of intoxication most of this time was passed. He had in Brownlee’s opinion, done more mischief in the war than any other chief. Great jealously was felt between Macomo and Sandilli, especially on the part of the former; this was shown through the cattle killing period in his efforts to involve Sandilli, while attempting to keep on the right side of the Government himself. Further south, indeed within the Colony itself, such petty chiefs as Seyolo and Botman, lurking in the Fish River bush, and the Keiskamma kloofs, rendered the main road dangerous, and even succeeded, for a time, in completely cutting the ling of communication between Kingwilliamstown and Grahamstown.
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  • Date Issued: 1932

East London: its foundation and early development as a port

  • Authors: Gordon, B C
  • Date: 1932
  • Subjects: Smith, Harry George Wakelyn, Sir, 1788-1860 D'Urban, Benjamin, Sir, 1777-1849 Harbors -- South Africa -- East London East London (South Africa) -- History -- 1836-1866
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2606 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012046
  • Description: The flourishing city of East London has received but scant attention from historians. Its importance has been overshadowed by that of Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, each with a foundation bordering on the romantic. The introduction to this thesis indicates traces of the existence of primitive man in these parts. The historical survey will commence with notices taken of the region by nautical and land expeditions in search of either shipwrecked sailors, or news of native races. The first serious notice of East London taken by the white people came in the time of Sir Benjamin D'Urban who sought a seaport for his new province of Queen Adelaide. Our port was opened in 1836 under the appellation of Port Rex, but faded into temporary insignificance, almost oblivion, with the reversal of Sir. B. D'Urban's frontier policy by Lord Glenelg and the abandonment of the new province in 1837. It was not destined to remain forgotten, for Sir Harry Smith at the end of 1847, saw in the mouth of the Buffalo River the same possibilities as had struck the advisers of Sir B. D'Urban. To him it was the future London of the East, and the connecting link between British Kaffraria and the world outside. From that time East London has grown steadily, and of recent years very rapidly. It is not proposed to carry this survey much beyond 1866 in which year British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony.
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  • Date Issued: 1932

The development of native policy in the Transkei and in Glen Gray between 1870 and 1900

  • Authors: Griffiths, M S
  • Date: 1939
  • Subjects: Transkei (South Africa) -- History , Black people -- South Africa -- Legal status, Laws, etc. -- South Africa -- History
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2607 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012098 , Transkei (South Africa) -- History , Black people -- South Africa -- Legal status, Laws, etc. -- South Africa -- History
  • Description: The Transkeian Territories extend over a stretch of 17000 square miles between the north eastern border of the Cape Colony and the southern border of Natal. In 1870 this was an exclusively Native area ; inhabited by some half million natives tribally organised under independent chiefs and grouped into racial entities according to origln; customs, and language dialects.
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The governorship of Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole

  • Authors: Scheepers, Unus
  • Date: 1940
  • Subjects: Cole, Galbraith Lowry, Sir, 1772-1842 , Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History -- 1814-1835 , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Race relations , Slaves -- Emancipation -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Xhosa (African people) -- History -- 19th century , Xhosa (African people) -- Colonization -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Khoikhoi (African people) -- History -- 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2600 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007899 , Cole, Galbraith Lowry, Sir, 1772-1842 , Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History -- 1814-1835 , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Race relations , Slaves -- Emancipation -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Xhosa (African people) -- History -- 19th century , Xhosa (African people) -- Colonization -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Khoikhoi (African people) -- History -- 19th century
  • Description: From Conclusion: There were no great upheavals during Cole's governership, but his rule has been a very interesting study. The old order of things was coming to a close. The way was prepared under Cole for freeing of the slaves; and the old despotic rule became a thing of the past. The British Settlers agitated for and obtained a free press; thus the foundation was laid for democratic institutions. He was the first governor to lay emphasis on the necessity of municipal councils not only as a way of decreasing expenditure, but also as a school for representative government. The Boers were becoming race conscious and the present orientation of the political parties had their origin in this period, though subsequent events have made the political struggle embittered. Above all the stage was being set for the Great Trek and the opening up of the whole of the present Union of South Africa and Rhodesia ... Last but not least the native question was entering upon its modern phase. Chiefs were losing their power, they admitted that they could not control their subjects, and natives were entering the service of Europeans; not only to steal with greater impunity but also to be able to enjoy the security offered by a well organised and disciplined society.
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Die Afrikaanse drama (1920-'39) as spieël van die Suid-Afrikaanse volkslewe met inleiding oor die Afrikaanse drama as kunsgenre

  • Authors: Van der Spuy, M T
  • Date: 1942
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:21117 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6464
  • Description: Inleiding:'n Drama moet bo alles 'n direkte voorstelling gee van 'n natuurlike handeling, wat 'n aantal deur die kunstenaar geskape karakters deurmaak. Die wese van die drama is dus handeling. Allermins is drama 'n met gesprekke aangeklede verhaal, maar ook is drama geen blote karakteruitbeelding nie. Die handeling moet die uiterlike, maar veral die innerlike uitbeeld: Die psige van die mens, sy gevoelens, neiginge, hartstogte, ideë, in hulle skakeringe en wisselwerkinge - hier lê die gebied van die dramaturg. Maar wat 'n dramatiese handeling uitbeeld, moet meer wees as die menslike geaardheid, dit moet die lewe self wees.
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  • Date Issued: 1942

Interrelations between learning abilities in various situations

  • Authors: Lundie, Carol Frances
  • Date: 1942
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:21159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6629
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A report on the comparative performance of coloured and European factory workers on four tests of ability

  • Authors: Gough, Margaret Frances
  • Date: 1947
  • Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology , Employees -- South Africa , Colored people (South Africa) -- Psychology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3246 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014980
  • Description: This thesis is a report on the results or four psychological tests, applied to two groups or workers in Port Elizabeth factories; the one group consisting of European, the other of Coloured workers. The abilities selected for testing were believed to be necessary, to some extent, in certain Industrial operations.
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  • Date Issued: 1947

The missionary work of the first Anglican Bishop of Natal, the Rt. Reverend John William Colenso, between the years 1852-1873

  • Authors: Burnett, B B
  • Date: 1947
  • Subjects: Colenso, John William, 1814-1883
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2621 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014679
  • Description: At the outset it had been my intention to make only the slightest of references to the Church Controversy in which Bishop Colenso was involved and to have touched only lightly on his theological position. Apart from anything else I hesitated to enter the arena in which so many had already collided violently and where my own prejudices might be enlisted on one side or the other. It became evident however that Colenso the Controversialist, the Theologian could not be dissociated from Colenso the missionary, without giving an inadequate, and even misleading history of his missionary activities. The Controversy had a serious and deleterious effect on his missionary work, and no estimate of the value of a missionary's labours would be valid without some consideration of his teaching, more especially when his orthodoxy is suspect. I have therefore dealt as briefly as I could with these questions in Chapter V because of their relevance, and because to produce a work on an ecclesiastic without some reference to his tenets would be like writing a biography of Louis Botha without any allusion to his political 'faith', or of Wellington, without any mention of Waterloo. it would represent a distortion of history to write about a Missionary Bishop as though he were an amateur politician, or of a missionary as though he were interested only in finance and administration.
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  • Date Issued: 1947

A socio-economic study of East London, Cape Province, with special reference to the non-European peoples

  • Authors: Bettison, D G
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: East London (South Africa) -- Social conditions , East London (South Africa) -- Economic conditions , Rural-urban migration -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3387 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013496
  • Description: From Forward: The development of gold mines in the Orange Free State is likely to be to modern East London what Kaffir Wars were to old East London. "The Fighting Port", as it is commonly called, is the nearest harbour to these mines and is linked by good rail, road and air facilities. A wide variety of industry is already established. Development is likely to be rapid. At present the City contains over 80,000 persons, and with the addition of peri-urban suburbs has doubled its population in just over fifteen years. In the past is has claimed to be the healthiest holiday resort in the Union. This year a City-wide campaign has been organised to fight tuberculosis, as the City's statistics indicate that it has one of the highest rates of anywhere in the world. Within twelve years two government sided commissions of enquiry have sat in the City and reported on the administration and living conditions of the city's African populaton. Extremely strong adjectives have been used to describe, and drastic recommendations made to improve the socio-economic and general conditions of the African people. Under the holiday atmosphere of the City lies a very serious, complex, and potentially dangerous human problem.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

East London and its geographical setting

  • Authors: Moult, Frank Leslie
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: East London (South Africa) -- Geography
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:4874 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012908
  • Description: Along the South African coast between Cape Town and Durban, a distance of 822 miles, are the two major ports, Port Elizabeth and East London. These two ports, rivals in some ways, have histories that are closely linked. Their harbours have been built at two of the most favourable spots along a coastline poorly endowed with natural harbours. East London, the fourth harbour of the Union of South Africa, is the only river port of any consequence, and had to win the mechanical fight against nature and the fight against prejudice that contended that her position was too close to a troublesome frontier. After a hundred years of growth, East London is a mature town, with the residential and industrial areas clearly defined. Her expansion will be along the lines of planned zoning. (2) Her population in 1950 was 910,195 of which 43,195 were European and 39,698 Native. Besides being a port, East London is a prominent holiday resort and, of recent years, is developing as an industrial town. A striking feature is the clean aspect of the town. Those two "miracles" of South Africa, the discovery of diamonds and the discovery of gold, stimulated the growth of East London; especially the discovery of diamonds since Kimberley was about 450 miles from this, its nearest harbour. But the river mouth at East London had very little natural advantage over the other river mouths along the coast. There was at the Buffalo Mouth no outstanding, decisive merit. In many matters, such as the railway, the bridge, the water supply, there was doubt, uncertainty and bickering, with subsequent decisions to shelve the latter or make use of a temporary expedient, because there were many mediocre alternatives but none which was supremely suitable. In 1852, Bishop Gray wrote, "East London ... .has as few natural advantages as any place I have seen claiming to be a port. I could have walked across the river without getting wet above the knee." Intro., p. i-ii.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

A critical study of the evidence of Andries Stockenstrom before the Aborigines Committee in 1835, viewed in the light of his statements and policies before 1935

  • Authors: Urie, J M
  • Date: 1953
  • Subjects: Stockenstrom, Andries, 1792-1864 , Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- History -- 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2617 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013416
  • Description: In recent years, increasing interest has been taken in the career of Andries Stockenstrom. Detailed study of his policy as Landdrost of Graaff-Reinet , as Commissioner-General of the Eastern Districts, and as Lieutenant-Governor, has brought about a realization of the soundness and value of much of his work. This appreciation of the sterling qualities of Stockenstrom's character- despite his undoubtedly difficult temperament - has led to the tacit assumption that the accusations which were levelled against him, and the odium in which he was held in Albany, after his evidence before the Aborigines Committee 1835 -1836, were largely the result of unfortunate newspaper propaganda. That evidence, it is implied - coming as it did at a time when public opinion was peculiarly sensitive to criticism - was in fact, not as black as it had been painted. Yet the events of the period between the Commissioner-Generalship and the Lieutenant- Governorship have not only coloured the judgment upon Stockenstrom of almost every writer on South African history, but so influenced contemporary public opinion as to materially impair the efficiency of his Lieutenant-Governorship. In writing this thesis, it has heen my purpose to make a detailed study of such material as is available for the period 1833-1836, and to endeavour, by an analysis of the evidence more particularly in the light of the years before 1833, to set this significant period in Stockenstrom' s career in its right perspective.
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  • Date Issued: 1953

Defoe and Scottish politics after union

  • Authors: Gathorne, R
  • Date: 1954
  • Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Political and social views , Scotland -- History -- 1689-1745
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2605 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011941
  • Description: It would indeed have been a difficult matter for anybody possessing a taste for self-expression, a facility with words and an insatiable imagination to avoid becoming involved in political controversy in England during the early part of the Eighteenth Century. For one who, in addition, was confident in his ability to solve problems of state of whatever complexity it was clearly an impossibility. Daniel Defoe's close connection with politics during the first years of the Eighteenth Century involved him in numerous hardships. In later years it brought him much less fame than his excursions into fiction; but it was the means of providing him, albeit sparsely at times, with sufficient money to keep his creditors at bay. On more than one occasion the protection he gained helped to rescue him from imprisonment. Intro., p. 1.
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  • Date Issued: 1954

Die aktualiteit in die poësie van A Roland Holst

  • Authors: Bezuidenhout, Gertruida Catharina
  • Date: 1954
  • Subjects: Roland Holst, Adrianus, 1888-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation , Dutch poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3639 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013499
  • Description: From Verantwoording: By die ondersoek na die rol wat die aktualiteit in die poësie van A. Roland Holst speel, wou ons veral nagaan of die gedigte waarin elemente van die aktualiteit aanwesig is, in wese van sy orige werk verskil. Hoofstuk II, “Teen die Wereld” gaan veral sover dit die inhoud betref, op hierdie vraag in. In die derde en vierde hoofstukke is na aanleiding van ‘n aantal verteenwoordigende gedigte getrag om meer in besonderhede, en ook wat die vorm aangaan, die saak van nader te beskou, en die resultate van die ondersoek is in die Slotbeskouing saamgevat.
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Robert Godlonton as architect of frontier opinion, with special reference to the politics of separatism, 1850-57

Verkenninge in die woordeskat van die poësie met spesiale verwysing na N. P. van Wyk Louw

  • Authors: De Villiers, Aart
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Louw, N. P. van Wyk (Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk), 1906-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation , Afrikaans poetry -- History and criticism
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3644 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014742
  • Description: [From Introduction]. Soos die titel aandui, wil hierdie skripsie bloot verkenninge wees. Dit sal vir die leser duidelik wees dat dieselfde metode van benadering wat ek hier op sekere aspekte van die woordeskat van van Wyk Louw se poësie toegepas het, ook op ander woordsoorte toegepas sou kan word, en ook op die werk van ander digters. As 'n mens die gegewens wat jy so verkry, histories sou beskou, sou jy 'n baie interessante kykie kry op die ontwikkeling van die woordeskat in die Afrikaanse poësie. ln die beste van een skripsie is so iets egter, soos duidelik sal blyk, nie moontlik nie. Later, voel ek, sou miskien met vrug op dié grondslag voortgebou kan word.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Freedom in the thought of John Locke and John Stuart Mill

  • Authors: Omer-Cooper, John David
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Locke, John, 1632-1704 , Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 , Liberty , Ethics , Free thought , Autonomy (Psychology)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012989
  • Description: Recent history has abundantly justified J. S. Mlll's theory that the power of soclety over the indivldual is llkely to increase without limlt If lt was not prevented. One of the most obvlous phenomena of our times has been the rise of the so-called totalltarlan systems of government; states that treat the lndlvldual as a being wlth no other end but the servlce of the state and which are prepared to use the advanced technlques which modern scientific research has made available to them to mould the individual as the perfect tool of the system.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

The development of the secretaryship to the government at the Cape of Good Hope under John Montagu, 1843-1852

  • Authors: Breitenbach, J J
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Montagu, John, 1797-1853 , Montagu family , Cape of Good Hope (Colony) -- Parliament -- Legislative Council , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Politics and government
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2620 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014603
  • Description: The development of the Cape Colony during the 'forties and early 'fifties last century is, indeed, a fascinating study. And as one aspect of it, a critical study analysis of the public career of John Montagu, while he was Colonial Secretary at the Cape, is of particular interest. For, by tracing the influence of his office in relation to the changing political, social and economic structures of the colony, it is hoped some contribution will be made to the knowledge of the period. Thus, the present thesis is, in part, an examination of the duties and responsibilities of the Colonial Office; but more particularly, it is an examination of how Montagu, who virtually dominated the Cape scene for almost a decade interpreted these duties and responsibilities. By concentrating, then, on his role in the civil administration and political management of colonial affairs, other aspects are revealed. The authority of the Colonial Office, which had through the years become a sort of government 'archives', was developed to such an extent, that every memorandum issued by it seems to set the tone for government policy. More. The very fact that Montagu was, time and again, left in charge of civil affairs at the Cape, while it reveals the dominant native problem and the vital question of defence, accounts also for the patenalism in government. The most important primary sources for this study have been the British Parliamentary Papers on Cape Affairs, the Cape of Good Hope Blue Books, Government House Records and the relevant minutes of the Executive and Legislative Councils. The Annual Almanacs of the Cape proved to be invaluable; they contain a wealth of information on the institutions of government, central and local, as well as the most indispensable returns for all the many services at the Cape.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Wages and employment of European women in industry in Durban, 1955/56

A study of the heroine in certain Victorian novels

  • Authors: Addecott, Grahame John
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism , Heroines in literature
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2319 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013374
  • Description: During the reign of Queen Victoria was seen the gradual emergence of the emancipated woman. The idea that women were innocent beings who must be kept from real knowledge of the world died hard, however, and to the end of the era there were many who repudiated the very concept of emancipation whether in literature or life. Coupled with the chivalrous, idealistic concept of womanhood was Victorian respectability, and it is not surprising that in the earlier Victorian novels we see clearly the idealistic concept of women and the effects of the cult of respectability. To illustrate my theme, of the gradual change in the concept of the novel which naturally kept pace, more or less, with the progress the emancipation of women was making, I have chosen one novel from each of seven great Victorian novelists whose works span the whale era. The only exception I have made is with Charlotte Bronte. In her case the heroines of two of her novels are discussed mainly because she is the first Victorian novelist to sound a note of protest against the then conventional concept of the heroine.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

A study of the relationship between the poetry and criticism of Ezra Pound 1908-1920

  • Authors: De Villiers, André Rex Wepener
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2317 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013320
  • Description: From the preface: The purpose of this thesis is exposition rather than criticism. Pound's position in the hierarchy of the 'New Criticism' would provide an extremely interesting subject; but I have rather tried to outline; the standards which he has laid down as being central in the technics of good poetry and to show how closely he has adhered to them in his own verse. I have limited the period to be discussed because all of the essential principles which he employs in his writing after 1920 are discernible in the body of his work published before that date.
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  • Date Issued: 1959
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