... by University of Washington 2021 William Shakespeare John Donne George Herbert G. W. F. Hegel anti-song Jonathan Culler’s magisterial Theory of the Lyric , for all its brilliance, cannot escape a problem endemic to all attempts to generalize about a genre. Culler develops a theory of persistent...

... Antigone’s Song as “Mirour” Sister Mary Raynelda Makarewicz interprets the whole of Anti- gone’s song as a description of “true” love. “The antithesis between true and false love is further illustrated in the love songs of Antigone and the nightingale. In the first there are echoes...

... reinforce this sense of the tale’s tradition, ending with an anti-feminist moral, as does the tale by Adolphus. St. Peter and Christ are common intercessors, adding the weight of Christian authority to the Merchant’s bitter anti-feminist conclusions about women, as the Novellino and Adolphus...

... John Davies states,s4 underlies the pragmatism and anti-Petrarchan statements found throughout the ayres. For exam- ple, one anonymous poet asks, in song 16 of William Corkine’s SPcond rook^ 0fAyre.s ( 16 iz), “Shall I learn . . . that Loue’s disguised?”only to answer, “No, I will be more...

... subjected Kantian-Coleridgean “essentialist organicism” to withering historical deconstruction—have proceeded to pose their own alternative accounts of aesthetic and cultural history. These alternatives often involve an “anti-aestheticist” constructionism...

... for contradictions involved in the anti-royalist Milton’s use of royalist symbolism, and finds a dilemma which, for good reason, has not disturbed three centuries of readers. Perhaps my objection is best illustrated, not by con- futing Ross on one or two details, but by applying his method to another...

... on a study of three songbooks compiled between about 1500 and 1530, which “contain between them almost the whole repertory of early Tudor songs-that is, of poems set to music” (p. 7). It is extraordinary, therefore, that they have never been carefully examined before. Stevens’ study leads him...

... in the History of Music, 1963. xxii + 334 pp. $8.00. John Stevens’ book is based on a study of three songbooks compiled between about 1500 and 1530, which “contain between them almost the whole repertory of early Tudor songs-that is, of poems set to music” (p. 7). It is extraordinary, therefore...

...Michel-André Bossy Haidu Peter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. x + 257 pp. $39.95. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews The Subject of Violence: The “Song of Roland * and the Birth of the State. By Peter Haidu. Bloomington: Indiana University...

... In many anti- quarian works of the eighteenth century, vernacular language appears as an authenticating artifact; words and their etymology lead from present to past.39 Yet Herd denies that the words on his page represent the actual ancient language of the songs, which, in his assessment, has...

... of Halbach’s chronology depends upon his interpretation of Wal- ther’s anti-Reinmar songs; but the reader should realize that the whole feud may have been more literary than personal, and even more fictitious than real. Possibly it was a mutually arranged means of winning attention, as seems...

... of early 1818 focus the passionate public interest in things Scottish and, by association, the primitive well of poetry and song. From them three lines can be traced to “La Belle Dame”: bal- lads, the literary interest in ancient poetry, and the public consumption of Scottish novels and plays...

... to “sing us one of the songs of Zion,” the exiled Jews of Psalm ask, “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Nead, – The mid- Victorian era was a period of rising anti- Semitism in Brit- ain as Benjamin Disraeli’s political ascent saw the biblical narrative of Moses in Egypt...

... are further evidence of the popularity of the theme. Contrary to the general mourning over the premature death of the duke, an anti-Napoleonic tendency was displayed in a few of these historical folk-songs. Instead of regret over his death, their writers expressed the opinion that by this went...

...? G. NORMANLAIDLAW State University of New York Stony Brook Wilhelm Miiller’s Lyrical Song-Cycles: Interpretations and Texts. Hy ALAN P. COITRELLhapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Germanic Languages and 1,i teratures, 66, 1970. I70 pp. $7.00...

... to connect the roles with the central concerns of the two poems. Bacon is hardly unique in his formulation of the duality in Orpheus’ song: “The singing of Orpheus is of two kinds; one to propi- tiate the infernal powers, the other to draw the wild beasts and the woods. The former may be best...

... that bespeaks mastery of the subject. His book should be useful, pleasantly and illuminatingly so, as collateral reading for undergraduates and as a text for advanced students and specialists. The materials ? Professor Moore examines lyrics that are anti-feminine, humorous, musical, political...

... should be useful, pleasantly and illuminatingly so, as collateral reading for undergraduates and as a text for advanced students and specialists. The materials ? Professor Moore examines lyrics that are anti-feminine, humorous, musical, political, philosophical, realistic, and satiric. He...

... conjectural. Much of Halbach’s chronology depends upon his interpretation of Wal- ther’s anti-Reinmar songs; but the reader should realize that the whole feud may have been more literary than personal, and even more fictitious than real. Possibly it was a mutually arranged means of winning...

... of what Keats meant. The rest may be suggested by excerpts from his letters: I know not how it is, the Clouds, the Sky, the Houses, all seem anti-Grecian and anti-Charlemagnish. . . . She [a girl in Ireland] is fair, kind and ready to laugh, because she is out of the horrible dominion...