This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after poet’s death 1886, W. B. Yeats considered him as being ill-served by ‘English notions’ of Irish criticism, a slight which was particularly directed at then Professor English Trinity College Dublin. Rather than viewing this sc...

This historic city has already extended its cultured hospitality twice to the members of the Society in 1960 and 1977. Now, once again after a decade, we are indebted to our hosts of Calcutta for their spontaneous generosity. It is needless to point out the rich heritage and culture which Bengal has contributed to our national life. The tunes of Vande Matharam and Jana Gana Mana flowed from her...

Abstract Parallel to Arab Nahḍah , Ottoman modernization program is associated with the Tanzimat, a period of drastic social, political and institutional transformation. The word tanẓīmāt itself, however, merely means “regulations” or “reorganization” very little has been done in investigating conceptual ideational foundations Tanzimat reforms. question at stake here how these series reforms we...

a comparative study of the corresponding styles of western and iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. this paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in iran and that of the west. this is ...