...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. The...

... henceforward 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...

...Richard Blessing Jay Parini. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. xi + 203 pp. $12.50. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 RICHARD BLESSING 30 1 Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic. By JAY...

...Jarold Ramsey Allen Blessing Richard. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974. x + 240 pp. $8.95 2 1‘1 KEVIEWS Theodore Koethke’s Dynamic Vision. By KICHARDALLEN BLESSING. Bloom- iiigton arid 1,ondon...

... 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...

... is in the other side of his “disease,” in the psychical side, 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...

... Poem on the Passion,” includes a genuinely lyric digression on the Blessed Virgin which makes it a valuable addition to the type. The Latin text and English rendering of “Cur Mundus Militat,” Nos. 14-15, supply useful material for the study of this popular version of the ubi sunt theme...

... sections not long before he wrote his lines. 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...

... 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 delivered in 1942 on the Walker-Ames Foundation at...

...; 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 of her tale by a sudden whip away from his eye at the sight...

... 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 a...

..., 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...

... produce a reaction. E. D. Hirsch’s book is a salvo in the counterrevolution. His divisionist thesis, attractively presented, is that Blake radically changed his interpretation of reality at least three times. In the 1780’s Blake posited antithetical worlds: a bleakly natural one and a blessed one...

... ; though our forefathers, as Mr. Woolff makes clear, ex- ercised a nice discrimination. A solid and homogeneous culture made impossible the extravagances of present-day America, and a blessed illiteracy prevented fond parents and fonder daughters from perpetrating the fourth and fifth century...

... in collecting and interpreting these documents should win him the blessing of many scholars. Especially valuable are his critical bibliographical notes. In his introduction (pp. 1-108) Professor Wolfe maintains a wise objectivity, reserving the damning or praising of Leveller...

... articles on the Memoirs of Jefferson hold him up earnestly as an example to the youth of France. As to his criticism of Tocqueville’s first two volumes, it shows us Sainte-Beuve wondering whether Europeans will always have to emigrate in order to secure the blessings of tolerance and liberty...

... crude effects. But whether we consider the foreign invasion as a blessing or not, the German professionals had prepared the way. The little community of Wattens is an early station on this way. University of Texas ...

..., and that they are blessed in their riches in order to bestow greater charities on the poor. As pictured in the Readers, so we are told, good children are industrious and thrifty, whereas the bad children are idlers. In promoting this dogma the McGuffey Readers, it is claimed, played into the...

...- gling with the Cynewulfian poems he found a blessed stay in Mr. Kennedy’s prose translations, which had then recently appeared (1910). Some years later came prose renderings of the Cadmonian poems (1916), equally spirited and useful, and after twenty years, his graceful translations...

... Princeton University, New York : Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1940. Pp. lxv+121. $2.50. Professor Kennedy is a skillful and indefatigable translator of Old English verse. A generation ago when the reviewer was strug- gling with the Cynewulfian poems he found a blessed stay in Mr...