...Richard Morton Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 NARRATIVE IRONY IN ROBERT BURNS’S TAM 0’ SHANTER By RICHARDMORTON The critical problems presented by Robert Burns’s Tam 0’ Shunter generally arise from...

...Richard L. Hoffman Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 THE BURNING OF “BOKE” IN PZERS PLOWMAN By RICHARDL. HOFFMAN In an admirably detailed analysis of the speech of “Boke” in Piers PZowman,l R. E. Kaske has sought to associate the last...

...Lee Bliss Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 4 THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE finally, Beaumont blends satire and celebration and offers the the- ater’s defeat but also the triumph of the dramatic imagination. The satire is there, to be sure...

.... Mary’s College, California Robert Burns: His Associates and Contemporaries. The Train, Grierson, Young, and Hope Manuscripts. Edited, with an Intro- duction by ROBERTT. FITZHUGH.With The Journal of the Bor- der Tozcr. Edited by DELANCEYFERGUSON. Chapel Hill : Univer- sity of North...

...Matthew Wickman This essay addresses the relationship between shape and number that is implicit to the conversion of statistics into forms of visual display. It does so by way of the work and legacy of Robert Burns, particularly the well-known poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” Bearing...

...Patrick Caddeau Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan . By Susan L. Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 282 pp. University of Washington 2006 Patrick Caddeau is director of studies at Forbes College, Princeton University...

...Harry H. Burns James Gordon Emerson 325 tive factors. Yet, as antecedent probability, they could have pro- duced the conversion, and the historical actor of the present may profitably contemplate them. These rhetorical factors...

...Wayne Burns Cyril Connolly. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Pp. x + 265. $4.00. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Sophus Keith Winther 239 biography, and it is a view that needed the careful analysis given it. He was also...

...Harry H. Burns 218 Reviews At the same time, Dr. Albrecht stresses Hazlitt’s criticisms which are still pertinent, especially his (and other critics’) insistence upon the impracticability of Malthusian theory and his shrewd anticipation of modern...

...SANDRA IHLE BURNS E. JANE. Columbus: Ohio State University Press for Miami University, 1985. ix + 208 pp. $22.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 REVIEWS Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. By E. JANE BLIKIVS.Columbus...

...Robert B. Martin Wayne Burns. New York: Bookman Associates, 1961. Pp. 360. $6.00. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 S. K. Winther 403 In the Soliloquy Arnold deals with “the poignant sense of man’s imprisonment...

... the revisions: the following scene offers one clear illus- D. H.Lawrence and the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969). 156 THE PLUMED SEIIPEA’T tration. Kate, whose surname in the first draft is Burns rather than Leslie, goes to visit...

... pretend to be competent in Victorian literature without some knowledge of Charles Reade? Wayne Burns has recognized the drawbacks in treating either Reade’s works, life, or place in literary history in a full book and has instead devised the subtitle of “A Study in Victorian Author- ship...

... started a fire on a flat stone, bids the children march three times around it to form a circle. The command executed, he burns in succession a small scrapbook, a toy boat, and a company of lead soldiers. Then he obliges Daisy to immolate a dozen paper dolls. When...

...H. E. Briggs KEATS’S “SICKLY IMAGINATION AND SICK PRIDE” By H. E. BRIGS One of the most important products of Keats’s walking tour of Scotland is his “Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns.” This, in recent years, has been widely misinterpreted...

...-or even mildly different ones will not find them here. In this version of what is now being labeled the “new aestheticism,” the “successes”are Wordsworth and Burns, the “failures” are Macpherson and Hogg, and Scott straddles the border. Murphy’s purpose, it turns out, is not to rewrite what he...

...! I, & tis Fitt ye world should know as well as I, wherefore I dye; from whence from whence that Flash of Lighteninge came, that turnde my wytherd hart into a Flame; I Burne! I Burne! Oh how I...

... bad a poet Blacklock may have been, this effort of Hume’s was not altogether wasted, for it was Blacklock who later prevented Burns from emigrating to the West Indies by en- couraging him to continue his writing. Another who was aided by Hume was his kinsman, John Hume, whose tragedy...

... walking tour in Scotland with Charles Brown in the summer of 1818. Moved by the mountains and lakes; curious about the primitive surroundings, the strangeness of speech and person; conscious of Burns in the landscape of both Scotland and his own mind; attentive to the ballads and the country...

..., Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , “[ballads] are everywhere intermingled with little elegant pieces of the lyric kind.” Such poems interested not only ballad collectors like Percy and his archrival, Joseph Ritson, but poet-collectors like Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Moore. Percy cast...