...EDGAR SCHELL S. Spinrad Phoebe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. xii + 334 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 REVIEWS The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage. By PHOEBES...

...Allan H. Gilbert Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ROBERT HERRICK ON DEATH By ALLANH. GILBERT The poetry of Robert Herrick, vicar of Dean Prior, is usually well represented in anthologies, yet the works...

...Samuel Schoenbaum © 1954 University of Washington 1954 THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY: JACOBEAN DANCE OF DEATH By SAMUELSCHOENBAUM Writers on the Elizabethan drama have described...

...Franz Karl Mohr Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE INFLUENCE OF EICHENDORFF’S “AHNUNG UND GEGENWART” ON POE’S “MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” By FRANZKARL MOHR The year 1949 marks the hundredth anniversary...

...Ann Thompson Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 DEATH BY WATER THE ORIGINALITY OF SALMACIS AND HERMAPHRODITUS By ANNTHOMPSON Those who have read the Ovidiari erotic poems...

...Nicholas Guild Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 MARVELL’S “THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN” By NICHOLASGUILD The prevailing opinion among the more recent critics of Marvell’s “The Nymph...

... tables of contents. To get at the actual contents, one must read these three volumes entire; and neither the style nor the results will encourage many to do so. JOHN WEBSTERSPARCO Northwestern University Plato on the Trial and Death of Socrates...

.... FREDERICKM. PADELFORD University of Washington Nobilis or A View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris. By THOMASMOFFET. With Introduction, Transla- tion and Notes by VIRGILB. HELTZELand HOYTH. HUDSON. The Huntington Library, 1940. Pp. xxiv + 146. $3.75...

.... LOUISL. MARTZ Yale University The Death of Sttphane Mallamt. By LEOBERSANI. Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in French, 1982. x + 100 pp, $19.50. The length of Leo Bersani’s study of MallarmC appropriately mirrors the relative brevity...

...ANCA VLASOPOLOS Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 ∗ It is bad poetry which proclaims a definite belief—because it is a sin against sincerity. SHELLEY’S TRIUMPH OF DEATH IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S VOYAGE OUT...

... the water. Perhaps David Riggs’s forth- coming biography will clarify it. DAVIDMCPHERSON University of New Mexico The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance. By ARNOLDSTEIN. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University...

...Leo Spitzer Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 MARVELL’S “NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN”: SOURCES VERSUS MEANING By LEOSPITZER In the considerable literature in which attempts have been...

...Pierre Legouis Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 MARVELL’S “NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN”: A MlSE AU POINT By PIERRELEGOUIS In a lively and entertaining article (MLQ, XIX, No. 3, September, 1958) Leo...

...Robert W. Uphaus SWIFT’S “WHOLE CHARACTER” THE DELANY POEMS AND “VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT” By ROBERTW. UPHAUS Prompted by Patrick Delany’s “Epistle to Lord Carteret” (1729), Swift wrote...

...Peter J. Schakel Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 THE POLITICS OF OPPOSITION IN “VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT” By PETERJ. SCHAKEL The plethora of recent studies of “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift...

...Robert C. Fox Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE ALLEGORY OF SIN AND DEATH IN PARADISE LOST By ROBERTC. Fox The allegory of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost has elicited com- paratively little critical...

...Susan Richards Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE II A DRAMA OF DEATH By SUSANRICHARDS In drama which treats a man who deals in death, death has a peculiar role of its own...

...Andre von Gronicka Hatfield Henry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. xi + 283 pp. $5.95. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 482 REVIEWS Aesthetic Paganism in German Literature: From Winckelmann to the Death...

...Catherine Gimelli Martin Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death . By Nyquist Mary . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . xiii + 421 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Arbitrary Rule offers a rich, intricately detailed...