...Leland H. Chambers Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 HENRY VAUGHAN’S ALLUSIVE TECHNIQUE BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS IN “THE NIGHT” By LELANDH. CHAMBERS Frank Kermode once suggested that “exegetical fallacies” had ob...

...Timothy Larsen Abstract This article explores the current state of biblical and theological literacy in the discipline of Victorian studies. It observes the ordinarily strong, careful, and impressive work done in recent decades, especially since some scholars have become interested in a postsecular...

... the prophetic-poetic text as “strong”: artful, controlled, ordered, and balanced. He responded to an anxiety about the place of the Bible and biblical prophecy in eighteenth-century English society by disavowing or minimizing the irregularities, stutters, and fissures in prophecy. But by introducing prophecy...

.... In the economy of justice, youth counteracts complacency. One of Guyon’s prototypes, the biblical king Josiah, is an example. Spenser pictures all his heroes as young, and growing up is part of his design for the epic as a whole. His attitude, though, is not condescending. The danger of sexual indulgence, which...

... thesis-though one might take issue with her method of demonstration-warrants this emphasis. The main concern of the book is a comprehensive examination of the Biblical material which some sixteenth-century writers poured into classical and Renais- sance forms. The result is an important...

... but as] a vehicle of’ truth” (p. 83). In all the prose and poetry Lewalski examines, these three quali- ties recur: the seventeenth-century religious mode is consistently personal, Calvinist (though Lewalski prefers the less controversial term “Protestant and biblical, at once poetical and literal...

... led to the continental infusion of Biblical plots into pagan forms or to the creation of any new kind of play? And is it to the point for the author to follow up her statement with a listing of the classical elements utilized in continental Biblical dramas ? Similarly, with the 1597...

... by examining the biblical basis of its generic and narrative patterns. After he had written this scriptural poem, he became his own religious tradition, devoting his first volume and six subsequent * 1 am indebted to the American Council on Learned Societies and the Committee on Grants, Franklin...

... the love of’ God. Poetry and religion were therefore analogous since both were instru- m e n t a 1 in f u r t h e r i n g spirit u a 1 ev( )I u t ion . Harding’s new book elaborates on one of Coleridge’s persistent concerns: the biblical scholarship that formed the foundation of his “Christian...

... could safely argue Biblical influence upon such a common sound- at tern.^ Nor could one urge as positive proof of Biblical influence the fact that so many of Whitman’s lines are in the parallel structure which forms such an essential feature of Hebrew poetry.’ I do not mean to suggest...

.... Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. 678 pp. $29.95. When I first taught a course in the English department called “The Bible as Literature” thirty-five years ago, there was little guidance in existing scholarship, and so I used the tools of traditional biblical...

... it a criminal offense, as a parallel to religious observance in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, which LaPorte describes as “a brilliant metaphor” (4). The first chapter defines the book’s purpose more practically, resting on detailed study of different facets of the relation between biblical...

... English literature has undergone particularly curious permutations in the criti- cism of Genesis A. One might expect to find a measure of consensus re- garding this poem, since it is a fairly close biblical paraphrase which obviously relies on exegetical material to furnish certain...

.... Rereading Cain with a confident sense of the philosophical and psy- chological issues that recent criticism has defined, we should still be discomforted by Byron’s handling of his biblical source. If we are no longer shocked that Byron occasionally mocks the literalness of Chris- tian faith, we...

... 123 124 FAERIE QUEENE, 1.6 It seems unlikely, all the same, that in his broad allegorical tracing of biblical history from the loss of Eden to the Last Judgment, Spenser means the reader to take the satyrs as ignorant, primitive Christians...

..., they are central to Chaucer’s reworkings of romance, popular tale, classical and Biblical tradi- tions on the pilgrimage journey of the Canterbury Tales.’ Late four- teenth-century theories of language evoke this same image of a ’ For a fuller discussion of these literary, cultural, and popular-tale...

... York, 1898), I, 129. Kingsbury Badger 41 One would think to read him that enquiries into articles, biblical inspiration, etc. etc. were as much the functions of a man as to eat and copulate.@ Evidently Arnold did not think William R...

... that Ruth is “sick for home” amid the nominally “alien” barley fields of Naomi’s homeland. And yet, as far as I am aware, no commentator on the “Ode to a Nightingale” has fastened upon this disparity between Keats’s Ruth and the biblical text from which she is drawn, to ask what implications...

... a currency for the figure expressed by the pun. How much of the original commonplace is understood by Troilus himself is, of course, impossible to say. Probably his conscious inten- tion is simply to exalt his own situation by applying the Biblical figure literally, perhaps to sentimentalize...

... Of the foreign literatures which military reformers drew upon to correct this dangerous situation, the biblical was the least promising, but not the least important. Although it certainly did not contain the kind of doctrine that military students would have ordered, no propagandist could...