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... of Welsh village life are lifted out of contingency by the synesthetic, participial ring of his Anglo-Welsh cynghanedd. March 2002 71 This is not to say that Thom as avoids writing about his own pain or distress. He writes eloquently on such subjects. How­ ever, he does so indirectly, for the m ost part...

.... Thom as s verse also verbally echoes another possible source for the image, which likewise links lion and unicorn. In Through the Looking-Glass, the Lion and the Unicorn have ju st ceased fight­ ing when the White Ring says to the Unicom , You shouldn t have run him through with your horn, you know...

... To be or not to be soliloquy which was printed in the August 7, 1770 issue of The Massachusetts Spy. York glosses the Parody with the assertion that Isaiah Thomas, the Spy s printer and co-owner, penned the poem .1H e goes on to opine: [I] t is n o t clear if [Thom as] h ad ever seen a Shakespeare play m uch less ju st...

... SHENSTONE AND FLATTERY In recent years, there have been repeated additions (seeJung, William Shenstone and James Thom son 411-13)1 to the poeti­ cal canon of William Shenstone (1721-69). Not long ago, a note was published that focussed on S henstone s early poem Mediocrity, a work that was written...

... of response. Firstly, critics have exam ined the nature o f the respect the poem expresses for Dr. Thom as Arnold, considering especially how the narrator relates to the father figure. Ruth apRoberts, for exam ple, has suggested th at M atthew A rnold was implicitly por­ traying him self as receiv[ing...

.... Figure 8.12. “Curse for Child Predators,” by Hieu Minh Nguyen, page 2 of 2, from the Book of Curses: art by Matt Huynh. Figure 8.12. “Curse for Child Predators,” by Hieu Minh Nguyen, page 2 of 2, from the Book of Curses: art by Matt Huynh. 1 I learned this from Kai Cheng Thom and Johanna...

..., Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles / Proceed from your great lips (lines 3-4) .2The first of these anim al sounds echoes the opening o f Dylan Thom as s After the Funeral, a poem m em orializing his aunt, which be­ gins, After the funeral, m ule praises, brays. In his poem , T ho­ mas imagines...

... with the lengthy entry for cat in the index to Stith Thom pson s Motif-Index.48 Since Darnton almost inevitably comes up in discussions of literary cats, and because cats have such a complicated and often exotic history of symbolic repre­ sentation, it seems a necessary digression here to rule out D arnton s...

... of Colorado 2004 June 2004 71 BOOK REVIEWS Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of JE . Cross. Edited by Thom as N. Hall. Morgantown: West Vir­ ginia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii + 449. he. $45.00. 0-93705858-0. Via Crucis originated as a series o f papers delivered...

..., ecclesiastical and dramatic works. In the 1528 statutes for Wolsey s school at Ipswich, a clause on school disci­ pline states th a t ten d er youth are n eith er to suffer severe whip­ pings, n o r sour-looking threats, n o r any kind o f tyranny. 7 In Thom as Ingelen d s play The Disobedient Child (c.1550...

... the completion and release of the work,Thom as Holcroft explores the political education of his naive protagonist. Hugh first thinks the law a fine career, but learns through disputation and personal experience to despise its fictions and obscurities as conducive to self-prom otion, not justice. Using...

... the familiar tensions between the political theories of Paine and Burke, and reading the poem s o f Blake and Shelley, Janowitz reasserts the im portance of the poetry of John Thelwall and Thom as Spence (in the early p art o f the period), and of E. J. Blanford and R. C. Fair (in the later years...

... NOTES 1 William Blake, The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, David E rdm an ed., (New York: Doubleday, 1970) 15, 11-12. 2Jo h n Calvin quoted by W illiam N ielsen, The Theology o f Calvin, H aro ld Knight, tr. (Philadelphia: T he W estm inster Press, 1956) 220. 3Jo h n Wesley, WorfoXIII, Thom...

... u n ab a te d in the p resen t day. MIDDLEMARCH AND DANTE S FLAKES OF FIRE Andrew Thom pson has dem onstrated the pervasive presence of D ante s Vita Nuova and Commedia in George Eliot s novels, particularly Felix Holt, The Radical an d Daniel Deronda.1 In Middlemarch Thom pson focuses on Eliot s...

... of the im portance for future developm ents o f two seminal contri­ bu tio n s, G eorge H ick es s g ro u n d b re a k in g Linguarum vett. septentrionalium thesaurus (1703-5) and the poetry of Thom as Gray; to an account of the aims and experiences o f such no­ table Iceland travelers and popularizers...

... disease, March 2005 19 b u t he m entions many oth er foodstuffs as well, and Thom as Cogan, in The Haven ofHealth (1584), pp. 92-3, praises stewed prunes as a laxative an d says th a t they are p opular am ong O xford students. Perhaps it was simply a fact th at Elizabethan brothels ten d ed to p u t...

... by Alfred Hitchcock. Addressing the gigantic statue of her father in the first stanza of T he Colossus, Plath writes, Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles / Proceed from your great lips (lines 3-4) .2The first of these anim al sounds echoes the opening o f Dylan Thom as s After the Funeral, a poem m...