A Study of the Citizens\u27 Councils as a New Organization and as a Social Movement

America has been called a melting-pot society. Its settlement by people of various racial, religious, national and cultural characteristics, couples with its large size and high rate of internal mobility, has presented it with problems of adjustment such as have faced few other societies. The American governmental system emphasizes the dignity of the common man and makes the free flow of public sentiment from the people to their governmental representatives very important. America denies the right of violent revolution and thus places non-violent types of mass movements in a more strategic position than they might otherwise occupy. Large and significant changes have taken place through movements such as the labor movement, the women\u27s suffrage movement, and the birth control movement. The important effects of social movements in American place a premium on understanding them and their place in American society

The Lake Poets

“If Southey had not been comparatively good,” writes Herbert F. Tucker, “he would never have drawn out Byron’s best in those satirical volleys that were undertaken, at bottom, in order to reprehend not the want of talent but its wastage.” And if Wordsworth and Coleridge had not been dangerously talented, Byron might have spared them some of his stinging sallies. In Table Talk Coleridge proclaimed the conclusion of the “intellectual war” Byron threatened in Don Juan (XI. 62: 496), declaring Wordsworth the poet who “will wear the crown,” triumphing over Byron and his ilk for the poetic laurels of the Romantic period. But Byron was not simply an opponent of his contemporaries. His responses to the Lake poets, particularly to Wordsworth, ran the gamut from “reverence” (HVSV, 129) then “nausea” (Medwin, 237) to Don Juan’s comical though cutting disdain, in under a decade. Focusing on Byron’s relationship with Wordsworth and Coleridge, I will show how Byron’s poetry and drama reveal the range and complexity of his dialogue with his older peers, where, even at their most apparently divergent, the conversation between the poets reveals the depth of the engagement across their works

Exile

Byron rehearsed going into exile in 1809, when he was twenty-one years old. Before setting sail for Lisbon, he wrote, “I leave England without regret, I shall return to it without pleasure. – I am like Adam the first convict sentenced to transportation, but I have no Eve, and have eaten no apple but what was sour as a crab and thus ends my first Chapter” (BLJ 1: 211). Byron’s sardonic perception of himself as a biblical exile foreshadowed the allusive character of his second longer-term exile at the age of twenty-eight, when his carefully staged exit required an audience (some of the same friends and servants), expensive props (a replica of Napoleon’s carriage) and a literary precursor. On his last evening in England, Byron visited the burial place of the satirist Charles Churchill, and lay down on his grave. It was a performance of immense weariness with life and solidarity with an embittered outcast.Postprin

[Notification of Grant Award - June 14, 1976]

Notification of Grant Award given to LULAC Building Board of Trustees for Talent Search Project. The amount of the award is $2,297.00, giving the project a cumulative grant total of$121,586.00. Dorothy Payne is listed as Project Officer and Rachel Arce is listed as Grantee's Project Director. The notification was signed on June 14, 1976, by Grants Officer John P. L. Thorslev

John Polidori\u2019s Gothic Novel: "Ernestus Berchtold" and the Daring Narrative of Incest

Polidori\u2019s almost \u201clost romantic\u201d novel Ernestus Berchtold, or the Modern Oedipus (1819) is an inter-textual narration that draws quite openly from the contemporary gothic literature of the time. Moreover, due to its exceptional genesis, it may be contextualised as a response to what Polidori was experiencing in his life, namely his journey with Byron to the Continent and, in particular, the summer spent at the Lake near Geneva with the Shelleys. The novel is precisely the result of the ghost-story competition and is to be read in relation to and in dialogue with the more successful literary works published by his fellow writers, primarily Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein and Byron\u2019s Manfred. Even though Polidori as a novelist did not acquire the same success and critical attention of his contemporaries, his \u2018lost\u2019 novel Ernestus Berchtold is an interesting gothic story worthy of examination for its dense inter-textual connotations