... more than a brief review to challenge the substance of Mr. Clements’ conclusions, but it is our guess that it would stand up pretty well under fire. EDWARDF. MEYLAN University of Calif ornk Alfred de Vigny’s “Chatterton”: A Contribution to the Study...

... , and Studies in Bibliography . “Everlastinge to Posterytie”: Chatterton’s Spirited Youth Margaret Russett and Joseph A. Dane It grows a hard case on our ancestors, who have every day bastards laid to them, five hundred or a thousand years after they are dead. Indeed [some...

...Bertrand H. Bronson Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CHATTERTONIANA By BERTRANDH. BRONSON In his very fine biography of Thomas Chatterton, E. H. W. Meyer- stein points out that the most formative and critical years of the poet’s...

... of “general interpretation” that The Probable and the Mamelous repeatedly flounders. We are advised, for example, that twentieth- century criticism “has had little to say” about James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton “for the very good reason that there is little to say” (p. 1). Donald S. Taylor’s...

..., but of significance, too, in Chatterton and the Rowley poems, Burns, and the various poetic versions of the old themes. Hazlitt’s lectures on these subjects were accompanied by some practical evidences. At about the same time that the Champion called attention to Cromek’s Galloway songs, John Hamilton...

..., but it is our guess that it would stand up pretty well under fire. EDWARDF. MEYLAN University of Calif ornk Alfred de Vigny’s “Chatterton”: A Contribution to the Study of its Genesis and Sources. By C. WESLEYBIRD. Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, 1941. Pp...

... us with money in Austen or in Chatterton’s invention of “Thomas Rowley” remains unclear, and one is left suspecting that “Swift” serves primarily as a way to bestow novelty and cohesion on a set of not very related older pieces. Swift and Others is best experienced as a compendium of “occasional...

... the letter written the next day to Reynolds : I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn. He is the purest writer in the English language. He has no French idiom, or particles like Chaucer- ’tis genuine English Idiom in English Words. We have seen, however, that while Keats...

... in the eighteenth century, focusing primarily on the myth of Chatterton, Burns, and English Wertherism, and examining how “Coleridge and his friends regularly cast him in the role of a composite Otway-Chatterton-Werther figure who was doomed to early lit- erary extinction or actual death” (p. 31). Much...

... focuses on the ballad, specifically on the range from assimilation to imitation to impersonation (Chatterton), to forgery (as when contemporary authors like Alan Ramsay or Lady Wardlaw printed as old ballads poems of their own composition),to collection from oral tradition, to the elaboration...

... be mentioned, wme they less knom, or less lamented ( 1780), which contained some previously unpub- lished Chatterton letters, and to The Abbey of Kilkhampton, a fre- quently reprinted collection of epitaphs on well-known contem- p0raries.l The student of English literature may run into Croft...

..., and then to evaluate, the nature and operations of this type. Certainly this is the most important objective of Chatterton, Stello, and Daphnk, of many of the Pokmes antiques et modernes, and above all of the masterpieces Servitude et grandeur mditaires and Les Destinkes. As one follows this endeavor...

... not on the main theme-the sorrows of the Poet-but on the Kitty-Chatterton sub-plot. Furthermore, there is no real classical “struggle.” The Racinian play deals with the com- bat, within the soul of the individual, between desire and Fate. Its essence is high tragedy. Vigny describes the inability...

..., Professor Brown is fiequently most interesting when he is most irrelevant-in sharply cut phrases that catch the traits of a poet; in his excellent and still-needed championing of the powerful and subtle irony of Churchill, that “Chatterton of neo-classic literature” ; or in his discussion...

... authenticity, “controversies in which no less was at stake than the shape of English literary tradition” (56). James Macpherson’s and Thomas Chatterton’s claims to have recovered, respectively, the poems of a third-century Celtic bard and of a fifteenth-century monk raised epistemological questions about...

..., 218, 1978. 171 pp. $9.50. Szarmach, Paul E., and Bernard F. Huppk (editors). The Old English Homily and Its Backgrounds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1978. vi 4- 267 pp. $20.00. Taylor, Donald S. Thomas Chatterton’s Art: Experiments in Imagined History...

... Chatterton. Bicentenary Edition. Two volumes. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 197 1. $40.00, the set. ‘I’homson, A. W. (editor). Wordsworth’s Mind and Art. New York: Barnes XC Noble, Essays Old and New, Vol. 4, 1970. vii +235 pp. $7.50. Viljoen, Helen Gill (editor). The Braantwood Diary ofJohn...

...). The rebellious extravagance of such authors as Savage, Chatterton, and all their Luci- ferian successors can look self-indulgent, but it needs also to be read as a strategy for keeping some part of the self intact in the face of what Goldsmith, another oddball and social outcast, recognized as the new...

... of Otway & Chatterton, & the phantasms of a Wife broken-hearted, & a hunger- bitten Baby !” 50 Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ between “outward forms” and an inner source of joy makes up a fourth of the poem. The personal lines on his afflictions and his turn to research...

..., Waller, Chatterton, Hopkins), (ii) the Protagonists of a New Style (Spenser, Dryden, Wordsworth, Eliot), (iii) the Assured Masters (Donne, Swift, Keats, Auden), (iv) the Polished Craftsmen (Herrick, Pope, Tennyson), (v) the Decadents, that is, men reduced to ‘stunts’ to get new...