Irby B. Cauthen

Many of our predecessors in the academic world, touched by the quality of their education, have devised plans for educating the young. One of these plans sets forth a curriculum that has been called impractical, idealistic, even impossible. And pe [...]

In Macbeth, declares Maynard Mack, Jr. , in his perceptive study Killing the King, Shakespeare presents a vision of "an older, idealized order of kingship embodied by Duncan that is attacked and destroyed by the villian-hero." Shakespeare had used [...]

I never saw the house where my grandmother and her numerous brothers and sisters were born and where they lived until they got married. If it was not burned—a usual conclusion for a farmhouse—it was likely torn down to make way for some industria [...]

During the summer of my sixth birthday, my grandfather gave me his steeple clock. I think I know why he did, or at least I can guess at the reason: he died that fall, and perhaps he was beginning to think with some nervous anticipation of that cert [...]