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Preface I first became interested in George Henry Lewes in 1945 when, as an ex-G.I. who suddenly had become a student of English literature at Cambridge University, I prepared for the Tripos Examination in George Eliot under Professors Joan Bennett and F. R. Leavis. At that time Lewes was to me...

Preface This is the first full-length study on the outstanding Polish poet and thinker Cyprian Norwid for the English-speaking reader. It has two interrelated but modest aims. First of all it tries to provide a sketch of Norwid's biography sufBcient for the understanding of his work and the...

Preface A "metaphor for the act of reading" (Paul de Man), criticism is at best an attempt to render explicit what is imphcit in the text. This is never an easy enterprise, but since Hungarian is not one of the frequently studied literatures in the Enghsh-speaking world, the task of writing a...

Introduction The present concept of a Karol Szymanowski albam is one of the many alternatives I considered, ranging from a documentary collection of pictures and memorabilia, through an attempt to illustrate Szymanowski's art by pictorial associations, to film-script biography. Each had...