Essays in Memory of Christine Burleson

action Allan Water American Missal Auden ballad become biblical allusion blood Book Boyd Boyd's Cary Cary's chant Chapter character chorus Christian church Compson Concept of Dread cursed Dante Dante's deep structure despair doom drama EAST TENNESSEE echoes edition Eliot Emily Dickinson English eternal fiction Freetown Gertrude grammar Hamlet Hardy Harold Hawthorne Hawthorne's Hooper Horatio ideas Inferno Kierke Kierkegaard king knowledge Krio Lady language lines linguistic Lord Lowrie Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne novel novelists oracular Paradise Lost passage perhaps play poem poet poetry priest published Quentin reader reason Rob Roy says scene Scott seems sense sentences shadow Sickness Unto Death Sierra Leone sinking star song soul Sound speak stanzas statement story Subsequent references Swenson symbol TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY Tennyson theme things Thomas thou thought tion traditional transformationalists translation Ulysses verse W. H. Auden Wesley's Whitman words Wulfnoth York