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Robert Lowth’s Bible: Between Seraphic Choirs and Prophetic Weakness

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Yosefa Raz
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8151546
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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“Pure Poetry”: Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism

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Trevor Ross
Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 437–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-58-4-437
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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Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blake's Thought

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Robert F. Gleckner
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 326–328.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-32-3-326
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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The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job in the Eighteenth Century

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Eric Rothstein
Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 229–233.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-58-2-229
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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Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition . By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp.

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William Waters
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 265–270.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-005
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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Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 . By Victoria Kahn. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xii + 370 pp.

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Annabel Patterson
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 271–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-006
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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Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century . By G. Gabrielle Starr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 298 pp.

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Deidre Lynch
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 274–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-007
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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Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan . By Susan L. Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 282 pp.

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Patrick Caddeau
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 278–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-008
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...
View articletitled, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan . By Susan L. Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 282 pp. View PDF for article titled, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan . By Susan L. Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 282 pp.
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Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp.

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Rita Felski
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 280–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-009
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...
View articletitled, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp. View PDF for article titled, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp.
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Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea . By Steven Dillon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 271 pp.

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James Tweedie
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 283–286.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2005-010
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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Acts of Meditative Mind in “The Ruined Cottage”

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Sanford Budick
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 145–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-4368210
Published: 01 June 2018
... as it is throughout the ancient and modern theorizing of the sublime from Longinus to Joseph Addison, Robert Lowth, Edmund Burke, and the eighteenth-century German theorists of sublime aesthetic light and aesthetic shadow ( umbra æsthetica ). 17 The pervasively explicit or implicit shade of “The Ruined Cottage...
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Collocation and Theme in the Middle English Lyric “Foweles in Pe Frith”

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Richard H. Osberg
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 115–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-46-2-115
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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Drama Goes to War. Number Seven of the Modern Drama Chapbooks.

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Glenn Hughes
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 380.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-5-3-380
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...
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