...Donald Cornu Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends . By Donald Cross Bryant. St. Louis: Washington University Studies (New Series, Language and Literature, No. 9), 1939. Pp. 323. $2.75 Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 Elizabeth Artis Watts...

... letter. S. K. WINTHER University of Washington Critical Moments: Kenneth Burke’s Categories and Critiques. By GEORGEKNOX. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1957. Pp. xxiii + 131. $3.50. By general consent, Kenneth Burke...

...J. Burke Severs Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 KEATS’S “MANSION OF MANY APARTMENTS,” SLEEP AND POETRY, AND TINTERN ABBEY By J. BURKESEVERS In a rambling letter to John Hamilton Reynolds...

... application of the associationist psychology. In the middle of the century Edmund Burke and James Usher joined in protest; and in the last quarter, Thomas Reid led the minority 0pposition.l In this essay the argu- ments against the association of ideas advanced by these philosophical critics...

... sublime to the visionary sublime” (p. lo), and he suggests that Dennis, Ali- KOBERT W. UPHAUS 205 son, Hazlitt, and Keats represent the tradition and development of the vi- sionary sublime, whereas Addison, Burke, Gerard, and Knight represent...

... and roughness (in contrast to Edmund Burke, who associated smooth- ness and beauty in A Philosophical Enquiry into the origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautijkl[17571 ) .I* Uvedale Price sought to define the characteristic of the picturesque in itself, emphasizing its medial func- tion...

... in Marianne Moore’s Depression Luke Carson hile most writers and intellectuals in the early years of the WDepression felt, as Kenneth Burke put it in 1935, “that our tra- ditional ways were headed for a tremendous change, maybe even a permanent collapse,” there is little to suggest...

... in perspective. This shift will allow us to remove, for example, an old standard of aesthetic the- ory, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, from established narratives of modernization, and it will allow us to realize how Burke’s text shakes up...

..., but chiefly he exudes tortured, fine-spun analyses that do not encompass the text and may obscure its plainest meanings. George Knox recognizes the trouble. He is a perceptive, shrewd, and lively student of Burke, warmly sympathetic but not simply reverential. He remarks the baffling...

.... Copeland and Dixon Wecter is especially to be noted. Comes now Professor Byrant with a valuable, but not highly original, study of the personal and literary relations of Burke with Johnson, Reynolds, Boswell, Garrick, Goldsmith, and many lesser figures of the Club and the Burkian...

... that prompted John Berryman, in a moving elegy on the death of Roethke, to lament, “The Garden Master’s gone and led Kenneth Burke, in one of the earliest and best essays we have, to celebrate Roethke’s “vegetal radicali~mRoethke himself spoke of “the green- house, my symbol for the whole of life...

... to Bredvold’s conservative arguments are his distrust of man’s reason, a fear of large-scale change, and his disapproval of historically untried methods. Behind these judgments is the guiding spirit of Edmund Burke, whom he once described as being the consummation of the great conservative tradition...

... of historically untried methods. Behind these judgments is the guiding spirit of Edmund Burke, whom he once described as being the consummation of the great conservative tradition that stretched from Dryden through the eighteenth century. It is Burke who becomes the hero of his new book, Burke whose...

... Critical Moments: Kenneth Burke’s Categories and Critiques. By GEORGEKNOX. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1957. Pp. xxiii + 131. $3.50. By general consent, Kenneth Burke is the most versatile, resourceful, inclusive, of contemporary critics. He is an exceptionally sensitive reader...

..., in Ireland and in Britain, which would finally outweigh his own. Edmund Burke argued that national characters were inevitable, ancient products of history, geography, and “family affection,” and that even governmental institutions were “so many little images of the great country in which...

... our constraints. Kenneth Burke was highly suspicious of the inevitable in all its rhetorical incarnations, from judicial rulings to theories of historical change. Yet he also resisted the valorization of potentiality as a site of resistance to inevitability. While poststructuralist theory now...

... in including typical motif of the elegy, but it is to be remarked that he uses the 1591 edition con- veniently at hand in the Wrenn Library rather than the 1579 edition. ELIZABETHARTIS WATTS University of Washington Edmund Burke and His Literary Friends...

...Robert H. Bell John J. Burke, Jr. and Donald Kay. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xii + 182 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 322 REVIEWS Donald Friedman. But there is much to be grateful...

... at this time as a language of imperial power and authority across national borders. Shields cites the work of Irish-born Edmund Burke and Welsh-born Richard Price, for example, but she comments only minimally on how their Irish and Welsh provenance might have obliquely influenced their rhetorical manipulation...

... paper economy was one text, mentioned in passing by Cuoco and yet perhaps central to the argument of the Essay: Edmund Burke’s Reflec- tions on the Revolution in France.22 In 1790 Burke had seen the Revolu- tion as a “conspiracy to create a paper-­money despotism”:23 “Is there a debt which presses...