... that the history and character of America itself is visibly embedded in the broad texture of its language. CARROLLE. REED University of Zt’asltington Adam Mickiewicz: Poet of Poland. A Symposium by MANFREDKIUDL. With a Foreword...

...Roger M. Asselineau Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 WALT WHITMAN, CHILD OF ADAM? THREE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS TO WHITMAN By ROGERM. ASSELINEAU The following are three letters addressed to Whitman in 1863 by Will W.Wallace...

... literature and of a book in progress, The Culture of Criticism: The Social Roles of Criticism in England, 1662–1835 . Genius versus Capital: Eighteenth-Century Theories of Genius and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations Zeynep Tenger and Paul Trolander heories of genius have been treated...

... literature. to the present day. ANDREVON GRONICKA U n iuersi t y of Pennsylvania Henry Adams: Th,e Major Phase. By ERNESTSAMUELS. Cambridge: Bel- knap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. xv + 687 pp. $10.00. The biographer of Henry...

...J. C. Levenson Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii + 212 pp. $4.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 98 REVIEWS The Examined Self: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James...

.... WOODS Tulane University Joseph Quincy Adams: Memorial Studies. Edited by JAMES G. MCMANAWAY, GILES E. DAWSON,and EDWINE. WILLOUCHBY.Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948. Pp. x + 808. $10.00. In a warm, frank portrait, Lane Cooper remarks that Joseph Quincy...

...Percy G. Adams Lars Åhnebrink. Upsala: Amerikanska Seminariet; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. Pp. xi + 503. $3.50. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 460 Reviews Spence’s ideas on Homeric criticism, aesthetic theory...

...Hazard Adams W. J. T. Mitchell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xix + 232 pp. 112 illus. $16.50. Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 204 REVIEWS early Prose Worh likewise offers no new light. Aden...

... according to Frye, the leviathan, who is “the source of social sterility” and “seems closely associated with the natural sterility of the fallen world, with the blasted world of struggle and poverty and disease into which Job is hurled by Satan and Adam by the serpent in Eden,” is also...

...V. Joshua Adams; Joel Calahan; Michael Hansen The call to stop reading “poems” and start historicizing “lyric,” then, is not only a summons to self-awareness for inheritors of modern interpretive method in the field of poetics (though it is certainly that). More grandly, it is a prolegomenon...

...John F. Adams Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 IRONY IN TROILUS’ APOSTROPHE TO THE VACANT HOUSE OF CRISEYDE By JOHN F. ADAMS Puns and wordplays, particularly in Chaucer, are frequently difficult to pin down and consequently...

...Joseph Quincy Adams Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 A NEW SONG BY ROBERT JONES By JOSEPH QUINCYADAMS In Richard Carlton’s Madrigals to Fiue Yoyces, 1601, appears as “No. I.” the following poem set to music :l The love...

...Hazard Adams Bunsho Jugaku. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1953. Pp. 175. $5.00; 35 s . © 1954 University of Washington 1954 Clarence L. Kulislteck 375 suggestion that the seemingly self-conscious gloom of the graveyard poets...

...Hazard Adams Dennis Meyer Gerald. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications, English Studies, No. 12, 1955. xi + 126. $2.25. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Hazard Adams 367 Shakespeare...

...Robert P. Adams Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 KING LEAR’S REVENGES By ROBERTP. ADAMS In a play filled with grandeur, meanness, and complexly mysterious insights into the human condition, the passage in which Lear pleads, “0...

...Robert P. Adams Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE ELIZABETHAN TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES By ROBERTP. ADAMS My aim in this essay...

...Adam Barrows The fantasy of turning back the clock by journeying eastward across what we today call the International Date Line appears in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce, all of whom create characters who make, or contemplate making, such time-defying...

...Adam Potkay Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion . By Julie Ellison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews Adulterous...

...Adam Roberts Reviews The Offense of Poetry. By Hazard Adams. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xi + 271 pp. The eye-catching title of Hazard Adams’s latest book supplies a word that does not spring to mind when we talk about defenses of poetry. Any offense would seem...

...Adam Versényi The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil . By Sarah J. Townsend Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2018 . ix + 301 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 What is the “avant-garde”? As a term...