Creating Generic Version Of Methods

So I have this class containing all my Enum types, also including methods for fetching Enum types based on their title attribute:

abstract class Enums {
 static private Landmass getLandmass(String name) {
for ( Landmass l : Landmass.values( ) ) {
if(l.title.equals(name)){
return l;

[Code] .....

The second method (getAttribute) is created by copy-paste and I also need to repeat this exercise with several other types of Enums. This seems like a waste of code however.

Instead, I thought I'd create a generic method for fetching any type of Enums. As far as I could follow the tutorial @ Oracle I need a generic class for this. Thus the EnumHelper class:

abstract class EnumHelper<T> {
 private T getEnum(T type, String name) {
for ( type t : type.values( ) ) {
if(t.title.equals(name)){
return t;
}
}
return null;
}
}

This, however, doesn't compute:

horoscopeEnums.java:234: error: cannot find symbol
for ( type t : type.values( ) ) {
^
symbol: class type
location: class EnumHelper<T>
where T is a type-variable:

[Code] ....

2 errors

To be honest I haven't been able to make much sense of the documentation on generics, thus its no surprise I'm stuck.