Reginald Bateman, Teacher and Soldier

This insightful work was written to celebrate the life of Reginald John Godfrey Bateman, the first Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. The selection includes a few poems, lectures, and essays written for popular audiences or literary gatherings inside the University. Contents include: Reginald Bateman—Student and Teacher Francis Thompson Milton To The Memory of Dr. Biggs The Teaching of English My Last Duchess Christmas Shopping Realism In Wordsworth and Browning Synge—A Fragment Dickens And Thackeray Pessimism Brains And Intellect The Eternal Silence Reginald Bateman—Soldier The War In The Trenches On The Death of a Comrade