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Calderon's Life is a Dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Milton A. Buchanan*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Extract

Since our last meeting, Professor Marden, president of the Modern Language Association and one of its most loyal and active members, has passed away. At the time of his death, Mr. Marden was preëminent among American hispanists, one of the noble band of philologists whose scholarly work had won recognition at home and abroad. For Mr. Marden philology was primarily a means to an end, the establishment of critical texts of medieval authors. He had made himself master of antiquarian literature, linguistic science, and the apparatus which the modern investigator is called upon to possess. The acribia of a true scholar he had in a marked degree. Because of the keenness of insight that characterized all that he accomplished, his intellectual integrity and fine judgment in weighing textual relations, his publications will have permanent value. As a teacher he impressed on his generation a love for learning, and as a man, very human and very humble, he will long be remembered for his gentle ways and unselfishness. In the September number of the Publications of our Association, there appeared an extended tribute to his memory, but it is proper that on the present occasion we should place on record our appreciation of his character and service, and express our deep sense of loss.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1932

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References

The Presidential Address, delivered at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, New Haven, Connecticut, December 29, 1932.

In a preface to “this edition” (1911?) of the novel, Bennett adds interesting details, but omits a reference to Tolstoy's work. Hating “the awful business of research,” he read Sarcey's diary of the siege of Paris, looked at some pictures and glanced at the printed collection of official documents. It has been asserted that he must have been present at a public execution, but he derived all his information from a series of articles in the Paris Matin.

2 Both versions look like dramatizations of a famous line from Juan de Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna (1444?): “Fuyendo non fuye la muerte el couarde.”