Studies in Literature and the Humanities: Innocence of Intent

280 Pages·1985·30.108 MB·English

by  George Whalley (auth.)

STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND THE HUMANITIES
George Whalley (by courtesy of William O'Neill, Whig-Standard,
Kingston, Ontario, 1980)
STUDIES IN LITERATURE
AND THE HUMANITIES
Innocence of Intent
GEORGE WHALLEY
Selected andintroduced by
Brian Crick and John Ferns
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It's certain there are trout somewhere
And maybe I shall take a trout
Ifbut I do not seem to care.
W. B. Yeats, 'The Three Beggars'
Contents
frontispiece: George Whalley
Acknowledgements IX
Introduction
TheMariner and the Albatross[1947] 15
2 Frye'sAnatomyofCriticism[1958] 35
3 OnTranslatingAristotle'sPoetics[1969] 44
4 'Scholarship','Research'and
'The Pursuit ofTruth' [1970] 75
5 'Research' and theHumanities[197I] 102
6 PickingUp the Thread [I973] 122
7 JaneAusten: Poet [1975] 145
8 Birthright to the Sea: Some PoemsofE.J. Pratt [1976] 175
9 Literature: An InstrumentofInquiry [1977] 197
10 Teaching Poetry [1978] 215
I I The Humanities in the World at Large [1978] 230
Notes 249
Bibliography ofthe WorksofGeorge Whalley 263
Index 268
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Acknowledgements
For permission to reprint the essays and review article selected
for inclusion here weshould like to thank the following: Professor
W.J. Keith, Editor of the University ofToronto Quarterly, for 'The
Mariner and the Albatross' and 'On Translating Aristotle's
Poetics'; Mr Robert Weaver, Editor of Tamarack Review, for the
review of Northrop Frye's Anatomy ofCriticism; Dr Alexander
G. McKay of McMaster University, Honorary Editor of the
Transactions of the Royal Society ofCanada, for '''Scholarship'',
"Research" and "ThePursuitofTruth" ';ProfessorMichaelFox,
Editor of Queen's Quarterly,for' "Research" and the Humanities',
'Birthright to the Sea: Some Poems of E. J. Pratt' and 'The
Humanities in the World at Large'; Mrs Elizabeth Whalley for
'Picking Up the Thread', which first appeared inJoseph Gold's
In the NameofLanguage, published by Macmillan ofCanada; the
Macmillan Press, London, for 'Jane Austen: Poet', which first
appeared in Jane Austen'sAchievement, edited byJuliet McMaster;
President L. Harris ofMemorial University ofNewfoundland for
'Birthright to the Sea: Some Poems ofE.J. Pratt', first published
in his university's Pratt Memorial Lecture series; ProfessorJohn
Baxter of Dalhousie University, Editor of The Compass, for
'Teaching Poetry'. 'Literature: An Instrument of Inquiry' was
first delivered as theJames Cappon Inaugural Lecture at Queen's
University in 1977 and first appeared in the HumanitiesAssociation
Review, XXIX (1978).
Brock, McMaster and the School of Graduate Studies and
Research of Queen's University deserve thanks for financial
assistance towards publication ofthe book in Canada.We should
like to thank the late George Whalley and Elizabeth Whalley for
their hospitality, which we shall always remember, when we
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Acknowledgements
visited Hartington to discuss the present selection. Mrs Shirley
Welstead ofBrock University deserves our thanks for typing the
manuscript. Finally, we should like to thank our families for their
help and patience while the book was being prepared.
BRIAN CRICK, Brock University
JOHN FERNS, McMaster University
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