... to unite neoclassical and biblical poetics. In fact, in 1778 Reynolds wrote an admiring letter to Lowth, commenting on the similarities between Lowth’s principles of parallelism and Reynolds’s notions of repetition in painting and architecture. 19 Though anything but typical, Blake’s prophecies...

... 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...

... is meant to be read as an account of Truth among the Jews in Old Testament times. It is the purpose of this article to show that the iconography of the episode, as well as several biblical and historical parallels with parts of it, strongly supports such a reading. An interpretation...

... S. Loomis and Laura H. Loomis, Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (New York, 1938), Plate 135, with explanatory text, p. 70. 7 Loomis, p. 70. 64 Irony in Chuucer‘s ‘Troilur’ (Book V, 540-53) tensions implied by the Biblical parallel and its moral significance. Whereas, in the two...

... chapter are perhaps the strongest and most original, tracing as they do the parallels between the “Higher Criticism” of German critical analysis, which enfolds textual criticism into biblical study, and a movement toward detailed study of origins and authenticity in contemporary approaches to Shakespeare...

... extensive and trenchant parallels of concept. “The souls dumb watch” suggests the image of the “dumb” Lamb of God (Isa. 53:7), as well as several biblical passages in which the recognition of the full glory OE God calls forth “dumb” awe and amazement. How- ever, the passage which most bears...

... 77 perspective. She reads Stevens’s canon badly in my opinion, as sacred text, but not before taking us with new insight through a substantial opening chapter on his religious heritage and his transformation of tra- ditional biblical forms of expression. With the aid of biographical data...

... woodbine bow-and in his inclusion of a narratorial frame for his retelling of the biblical story. The frame establishes a parallel be- tween the narrator and Jonah, not only by showing their shared need for patience, but also by “linking the idea of perfect patience to that of stewardship” (p...

.... The unself-conscious Melville was a better writer than the Melville of the next four romances. It is generally agreed that Moby-Dick was the first book to surpass Typee in literary quality. It is my argument that the general decline paralleled-perhaps even in some degree caused-a decline...

... 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...

... 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...

... and with the fertile confusion of values engendered by still-yearned-for heroic models. Contrasts between Marvell and Dryden allow him to pick up biblical as well as classical models. The observation that Davidic parallels serve Dryden’s conservatism whereas apocalyptic and millennia1 ones serve the “vivid...

.... 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...

..., and because in Bricriu’s Feart the couch of King Conchobar is surrounded by the twelve couches of the twelve heroes of Ulster. (One might remark here that since the Irish consciously draw a parallel between Conchobar and Christ the number twelve may come from the biblical story rather than...

... precisely because he is so eager to possess the world after the flood that he forgets the biblical promise that the flood will not be 4 The pun is on “likerous.” 5 For the music imagery in the Miller‘s Tale, see D. W. Robertson, Preface to Chaucer (Princeton, 1%3), pp. 127-33. Parts of my...

... writings re- sulted in the formation of parallel attitudes : an irreparable break with the philosophy of the Enlightenment, a return to the concrete individual by way of self-examination, and an acknowledgment of the irresistible power of such irrational forces in man as instinct and passion...

..., is based on the Bible. Working in the tradition of such works as the Cursor mundi, the Polychronicon, the cyclic plays, and the late prose romances, the poet is said to follow the general outline of the Biblical narrative, emphasizing the Creation (XI-XV), the Fall (XVI, 1-166), the Patriarchs...

... sense. Chadband is so limited and defined by the intricate system of parallels within the novel that he becomes a generalized Vice and not merely an attack on nonconformist clergy. Moreover, because the novel contains Jellyby and Pardiggle and Chadband, and numerous ancillary instances...

.... More specifically, he argues that Milton “presented himself to his reader as the prime example of the relevance of his biblical epic to fallen men” (p. 1). In this “self-directedness” he finds “affinities with other works of Baroque art and, more narrowly, with Puritan attitudes” (pp. 1-Z...

... to Chaucer, and it has been offensive to modern scho1ars.O The pageant plays belonged to the people to such an extent that the performances became a matter of civic pride, trade guilds taking the Biblical stories as bases for expansion and original development until the religious character...