...J. L. Simmons Epigraphs from William Roper’s “Life of Sir Thomas More” represent rituals of familial blessing in transition from the feudal to the early modern. They exemplify Shakespeare’s complex employment of the ritual in Hamlet and throughout his plays from the farcical to the serene...

... not to be neglected Biagio Schiavo (1675-1750). ELIOGIANTURCO Washington, D.C. ARTHUR’S ROUND TABLE AND BRAN THE BLESSED It is not my practice to answer all criticisms of my books, but when a scholar with the reputation...

...Richard Blessing RICHARD BLESSING 30 1 Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic. By JAY PAKIIVI.Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. xi + 203 pp. $12.50. In his preface to Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic, Jay...

...Jarold Ramsey 2 1‘1 KEVIEWS Theodore Koethke’s Dynamic Vision. By KICHARDALLEN BLESSING. Bloom- iiigton arid 1,ondon: Indiana University Press, 1974. x + 240 pp. $8.95. Kicliard Blessing’s study of Koethke is certainly...

..., the seat of man’s person- ality, that the difference between Goethe and Mann’s previous artists lies. Speaking further in “Goethe und Tolstoi” of the genius blessed by nature and of his divergence from the norm, Mann continues: “Da bleibt . . . im Psychischen immer vie1 den Durchschnitt...

... tale. Then posting onward through the residue of the night; he next chanceth on the spirit of Reuenge : She perswades him blood and treacherie against all his enemies, as th’onlie means to remount to pristin blesse in despight of Fortune: But she likewise manifesting in the end the treason...

... the word to all, as, blessed, unbamboozled, the bridal pairs, rustic and oppidan, in a ring-dance, image the stars at their stately bransles. . . . “City Without Walls”1 “Pardon’s the word to all,” announces Shakespeare’s unbam...

..., With this field-dew consecrate, Every fairy take his gait, And each several chamber bless, Through this palace, with sweet peace.. . (422-25) it seems equally likely, as a final charming touch, that the fairies left...

...”: the sportive nimbleness of the fawn invited her to the “game” of racing, of “hunting.” But with the lines “it seem’d to bless / Its self in me” a new note is sounded. The happiness enjoyed by the animal in her company, within her atmosphere, could not be depicted more graphi- cally than...

... of human feeling, the engraver/poet prints his own forms of ex- change, his own paper notes, in “well contrived words, firm fixing, never forgotten” (1235). In the exchanges of Jerusalem the precious material, the “gold” of “the hidden heart,” may become a blessing, a promise of the regenerated...

... Protestantism but- tressed capitalism and the cult of material success-almost a com- monplace since Weber and Tawney-should not lead us to neglect the way in which worldly enterprise in return supported Protestant- ism or to infer a bottomless cynicism among traders who evoked God’s blessing...

... to neglect the way in which worldly enterprise in return supported Protestant- ism or to infer a bottomless cynicism among traders who evoked God’s blessing upon their argosies and held ships’ chaplains to be as necessary as navigators. Louis B. Wright, in this admirable vol- ume of lectures...

.... One couplet typical of the thought in the two sections noted reads : Death is the keye, which mlocks miserie, And lets the soule to blessed libertie (“Of Death This idea of the blessings of death as compared to the woes of life is also expressed in several other lines...

..., and blessing brings about redemption, however temporary. Natural forces such as the sun and the moon appear to form unified symbolical patterns, but contrary to what Robert Penn Warren once tried to demonstrate, not everything good happens under the moon and everything bad under the sun. The poem...

..., scene 8 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream includes “Pyramus and Thisby” but not the final blessing of the marriages by Oberon and his troupe, who enter after the court and the mechanicals have exited and therefore constitute scene 9. The stage-clearing criterion, though apparently sensible, creates...

... of Self-Expression. By JOAN KEES. Cam- bridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii + 204 pp. $39.95. Joan Kees is not one of those critics blessed with the dubious gift of being able to understand an author without appreciating him. Her book provides...

... Petre’s Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin: “Sr Will’m Petre was maryed vnto the Lady Katherin Somersett at Essex howse wthowt Temple barr vppon Monday the viijth day of November 1596” (J. J. Howard, H. F. Burke, and H. S. Hughes, Genea- logical Collections . . . Relating to the Roman...

... and Drie Gold As yet lay under Ground; my blessed Fate Was more acquainted with the Old And Innocent Delights, which he did see In his Original Simplicitie. Those Things which first his Eden did adorn My Infancy...

...) In the end he finds the courage to sacrifice his desire outwardly. And in so doing he realizes it inwardly. When Thoas says, “So geht!” (2 15 l), he renounces what he has seen as a future blessing (“Segen”)to his people and to himself. What is Iphigenia’s reply? “Nicht so, mein Konig! Ohne Segen...

... upon us miserable sinners. 0 God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. 0 holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons, and one God : have mercy upon us miserable sinners. 0 holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity...