![]() Poetry." We had not seen such range, depth, and sureness of Movement, the Roman Catholic Church the relation of religion to Liberalism, Philistinism religious 'development,' the Oxford "criticism and the qualities of the critic. A number of central matters needed consideration: Three figures had sought, in their different but connected ways, toĪdapt traditional religious culture to the needs of the later nineteenthĬentury. Against aīackground of rising utilitarian values and scientific humanism, all In it, he traced the interconnected beatings of three majorįigures, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater. Again, the sameĪmassing of close detail, skill in spotting connections, echoes, andĪdumbrations sometimes decades apart, and an ear for nuance andĪwareness of contexts were all deployed in his most ambitious Published in 1969, DeLaura turned to a larger study. Though two other articles and reviews of four books were also The essay, and it deservedly won the first William Riley Parker prize as Of his influence." "A classic," said Ruth apRoberts of It a remarkable bulk of conscious and half-conscious borrowing of ideasĪnd key expressions, the other half something very close to concealment Over a longĬareer Arnold demonstrated "a persistent ambivalence, one-half of Of Carlyle" more than others thought, DeLaura brought an array ofĭetailed proof of the extent Arnold had heeded that voice. Kathleen Tillotson's insight that Arnold had heeded "the voice "a moral desperado," who in preaching earnestness to anĮarnest nation was "carrying coals to Newcastle." Then to Over the younger man, we more readily recalled Arnold's dubbing him Though we knew of Carlyle's pervasive influence When his lengthy and surprising article "Carlyle and Arnold"Īppeared in PMLA. His argument in the authoritative tone we were to become familiar withĭeLaura first showed himself a scholar of the first rank in 1969 In his meticulous, thorough way Professor DeLaura made Substance and hampering the dramatic effect of Anouilh's version of 'Antigone.'" Both a translator for the American stage andĪn editor of a popular edition were implicated in distorting the That was the impulse behind hisįirst scholarly publication, on "Anouilh's Other Studied as the informing, crucial, and interlinking force of their work.įirst and always, however, he was a student with a passion to learn andĪn equal passion to get things right. ![]() Himself a Roman Catholic ofĪ non-conservative cast, he saw religious thought in the writers he Interest of his investigations-religion as it was thought and writtenĪbout by major prose writers of the period. Religion, it is not too much to say, was the principal underlying Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England and the major articles thatįlank it, some so multi-valent and thoroughly researched that they might Publications is impressive enough, over forty, but the figure is of less Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and John Ruskin. Gave special attention to studies of Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Literary figures from Coleridge, to Hardy, and on to T.S. Recall his publications in the field so as to pay tribute to him as the Or with, for example, his considerable services to the profession OurĮditor has thought it altogether fitting that Nineteenth-Century Prose In the following pages we shall not deal with his academic career Great personal charisma, a friend and advisor to fellow scholars, and a Teacher revered by his students, and at Pennsylvania served asĭepartmental head, holder of the Avalon Foundation Professorship and, He became noted as a dedicated, award-winning University of Pennsylvania for a quarter-century he distinguished At the Englishĭepartments of the University of Texas (Austin) for a decade and the ![]() The field, died suddenly last April at the age of 74. Nineteenth-Century Prose and one of the truly outstanding scholars in
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