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...L. G. Swingle Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 1 R. D. Stock. The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. 395 pp. $27.50. CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC' By L. J...

...Marius Hentea This essay explores the conceptions of the classic, and of literary value more generally, in T. S. Eliot's “What Is a Classic?” and Matthew Arnold's “Study of Poetry.” Eliot's address heavily depends on Arnold's study, but there are significant points of difference, especially when...

...Alvin A. Eustis, Jr. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 RACHEL‘S RACINE : CLASSICAL OR ROMANTIC? By ALVINA. EUSTIS,JR. When Talma died in 1826, French classical tragedy, which had been living on borrowed time since the end of the Empire...

...Alan S. Fisher Edward Pechter. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. viii + 225 pp. $14.95. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 REVIEWS Dryden’s Classical Theory of Literature. BY EDWARDPECHTER. New York and London...

...: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers. By LOUISEK. HOROWITZ.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977. 169 pp. $12.50. Generally love is an overworked term, applied to the most various urges and affections, emotions, and drives. In French literature of the seventeenth...

...John M. Ellis ZIOLKOWSKI THEODORE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. xiv + 344 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 306 REVIEWS The Classical German Elegy, 1 795-1950. By THEODOREZIOLKOWSKI...

...W. DAVID KAY Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 1 ALEXANDER LEGGATT. Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. xvi + 300 pp. $35.00. CLASSICISM AND COMPLEXITY IN BEN JONSON’S ART1 By W...

.... HESTERGOODENOUCH GELBER Stanford University Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. By GEORGEDEFOREST LORD.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 198’7. viii + 224 pp. $23.50. Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry brings together some...

...James Paul Brawner Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 EARLY CLASSICAL NARRATIVE PLAYS BY SEBASTIAN WESTCOTT AND RICHARD MULCASTER By JAMES PAULBRAWNER The decade of the 1570’s was not only a period...

...Frederick M. Padelford By Herbert David Rix. The Pennsylvania State College Studies, No. 7, State College, Pennsylvania, 1940. Pp. 88. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. Classicism in the Rheto...

...Sara E. Melzer Orientalism in French Classical Drama . By Michèle Longino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 274 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Sara E. Melzer is professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles...

...John D. Lyons Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama . By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French...

... of the poet mandated by the classical era's perfection of the specifically theatrical mode of representation, Corneille's identification with his tragic divas constitutes genius as the radical other of the classical cultural order that the canonical “grand Corneille” is wrongly taken to personify. In addition...

...Elaine Tuttle Hansen Katherine Heinrichs. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. 270 pp. $28.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature. By KATHERINE HEIN...

..., but the effort will be rewarded with a feel for the texts and for a very important strand in classical Arab culture. Here and there it will be hard going all around: phrases like “theological conceptualization assisted by a philosophy living off its own self as logic” or “the detached dimensionality...

... , and The Winter’s Tale . Yet I wish that there were something more: a more incisive thesis, insights that coalesce into a unifying vision. The title itself is emblematic (and problematic). By calling the book How the Classics Made Shakespeare , Bate evacuates any sense of agency, “genius” (to evoke the title...

...William Waters Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition . By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp. University of Washington 2006 William Waters is associate professor at Boston University...

... at Los Angeles Winckelmann and his German Critics, 1775-1 781. A Prelude to the Classical Age. By HENRYCARAWAY HATFIELD. New York: Co- lumbia University Germanic Studies, New Series, No. 15, 1943. Pp. 169. $1.75. There has been of late a very strong interest in Winckelmann. German...

...William Haller Zera S. Fink. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1945. Pp. xi + 225. $4.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 246 REZ~~P‘IVS The Classical Republicans: An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century...

...Herbert Weisinger Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ENGLISH TREATMENT OF THE CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC PROBLEM By HERBERTWEISINCER It is, of course, a commonplace to point out that the Romantic era is the high...