Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. In its present form, then, the book is designed'to be helpful to those interested in any form of de bate.įorgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. The interest lately de veloped in the practice of formal debate, together with the interest in general debate which is always found in democratic communities, has suggested that the discussion of such a subject, revised so as to meet the needs of others besides college stu dents, may be of service to various kinds of readers. A disease of the nerves, long held in abeyance, at this time took an acute turn, but he persisted with his work until April, and in September after months of suffering bravely endured he died in Philadelphia.Ī large part of the contents of this book is based on material originally prepared for students of argumentation at Harvard College and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania.
In 1924, while absent on sabbatical leave from Stanford, he was visiting professor at Swarthmore College and at Columbia University. He also wrote verse and was the author of several children's books. His diligence as a scholar and editor of text-books did not lead him to slight his work in classroom and seminar he was an energetic and stimulating teacher. , "The Punctuation of Shakespeare's Printers") in which whole batteries of fact and argument are deployed in order to demolish the structures of less cautious scholars. His full powers show best perhaps in his variorum edition of The Sonnets of Shakespeare (1916), a masterly performance, and in various shorter articles and reviews (e.
He was eminently successful as the author of handbooks such as English Verse (1903), An Introduction to Poetry (1909), Alfred Tennyson-How to Know Him (1917), and Shakespeare (1922), and as the editor of Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle and A King and No King (both in one volume, 1910), and of the Sonnets in the Tudor Shakespeare (1913). The peculiar quality of his scholarship was its entire freedom from crotchets, from strained hypotheses, and from glimmering intuitions doing duty as ascertained facts. He taught in summer sessions at Chicago in 1910, at Harvard in 1912, and at Columbia in 19.Īs a prosodist and as a Shakespearean he had, at least in America, no indisputable superiors.
He was made associate professor in 1909, went to the University of Illinois as full professor in 1911, but returned to Stanford with full rank in 1914. (age 51) New Hartford, New York, United StatesĪlden taught for a year at Columbian University and was assistant in English at Harvard in 1896-1897, and stayed as instructor at Pennsylvania in 1899-1901.
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