San Antonio College Library

During the nineteenth century, men became acutely aware of, and correspondingly articulate about, the passage of time and its power to create and destroy. This book has as its province the four levels of time--past, present, future, eternity--as they appear in nineteenth-century English literature. Although he looks back to Romantics and ahead to early Moderns, the author focuses his study on Victorian writers who strove to interpret the breathless...

From the Publisher: The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent and publicly recognized figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, not to mention numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the century...