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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Yosefa Raz Abstract Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 437–456.
Published: 01 December 1997
... powerful, than historians or literary scholars have generally allowed” (SamuelJohnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from thti fistoration to Romanticism [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19941, 2). 12 Robert Lowth, Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hehews (1753...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 326–328.
Published: 01 September 1971
...Robert F. Gleckner D. Paley Morton. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1970. x + 272 pp. $9.00. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 326 KEVJEWS LhTgy (ljltl Ill0 llll~lgilll~N71 .Sl1rtly 01’ Ill(’ Ilcvc’loll?rzc...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 229–233.
Published: 01 June 1997
... to “systematize its representation of suffering” ( 11 2) and others (chiefly Lowth) emphasizing the suffering’s particularity. Both unfolded tautologies and the controversy bear on certain legal issues, which Lamb discusses through The Vicar of Wukejield and (briefly) Culeb Williams. He ends this part...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 June 2006
... learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose. Thus Lyric Generations opens with the proposition that critics should stop measuring eighteenth-century poems against Romantic-centered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 271–274.
Published: 01 June 2006
... or in nonmetrical forms, would have been less ready than we are to assign prose and verse to separate tracks of literary history: after all, they had learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 274–278.
Published: 01 June 2006
... learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose. Thus Lyric Generations opens with the proposition that critics should stop measuring eighteenth-century poems against Romantic-centered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 278–280.
Published: 01 June 2006
... and verse to separate tracks of literary history: after all, they had learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose. Thus Lyric Generations opens with the proposition that critics should...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 280–282.
Published: 01 June 2006
... learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose. Thus Lyric Generations opens with the proposition that critics should stop measuring eighteenth-century poems against Romantic-centered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 283–286.
Published: 01 June 2006
... learned from Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753) to find poetry in parts of the Bible that had formerly been considered prose. Thus Lyric Generations opens with the proposition that critics should stop measuring eighteenth-century poems against Romantic-centered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 145–171.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., as Wordsworth may well have sensed, in Kant’s own focus on Milton’s poetry 16 —the common denominator is already the alternation of light and shadow, just as it is throughout the ancient and modern theorizing of the sublime from Longinus to Joseph Addison, Robert Lowth, Edmund Burke, and the eighteenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 115–128.
Published: 01 June 1985
... to Lowth / such another shep erd I wott not where is” (p. 155, lines 685-86). I am grateful to John C. Coldewey f!r bringing this instance of the phrase to my attention. 126 “FOWELES IN PE FRITH” traditional associations or particular connotative force. Nonethe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 380.
Published: 01 September 1944
... der Genesis ausgehen muI3, und die so manchen stud. theol. in einen stud. phil. haben umwandeln helfen. R. Lowths Werk “Prae- lectiones de sacra poesi Hebraeorum” ist das erste epochemachende Werk aesthetischer Bibelkritik. Ganz unversehens war der geistig regsamen Jugend der zweiten...