...John T. Shawcross Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 MILTON’S DECISION TO BECOME A POET By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS A number of years ago William R. Parker noted the “legend” that “Milton’s life was preternaturally consistent : that he knew...

...Thomas J. Otten Ekphrasis undergoes a decisive shift in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his contemporaries. Whereas Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers (John Dryden, Alexander Pope) distinguished between verbal and visual arts through metaphors of realms...

..., and Andreas Killen, among others? What might such a thought experiment tell us about postmodernism, and about periodization in general? Even more decisively than in 1973, culture in 1966 is characterized by a series of “breakdowns”—of developments that get ahead of themselves, that stall out and recoil...

... in the context of what it is possible for him to know. Criticism of Strether has shown a curious bifurcation. One view, stated by E 0. Matthiessen and echoed by many, is that his decision to return to Woollett is disappointing evidence of his pallid puritanical withdrawal from the expanded experience...

.... In Act IV, however, we see a different side of Bancbanus. Here is his decisive moment of choice. However uncertain he may have been before in dealing with Otto’s mockery, and however much he under- estimated the dangers of the situation, he now acts with boldness and decision. Unexpected though...

... on the face of it” (p. 81). Weakness is also betrayed in Billy’s decision not to report his mutinous tempter, the afterguardsman. Here the narrator is most useful, for he leaves no doubt as to Billy’s mistake: his scruples are said to be “un- KOBEKT MEKKILL...

... it is she who has the final decision, and her dignity lies not only in this recognition : it emanates from the assurance and nobility of her conclusion. Blanche, the Prioress, Alceste, the formel, are different beings, but at one point they resemble each other-their bearing is faultless...

... have in Walter Langlois’s book a documented account of this important episode which, as the author points out, gave a decisive orientation to Malraux’s future career. Since Langlois’s book was published, another has recently appeared here in France covering, in part, the same material...

... they are, as it were, called upon to make a decision in favor of turning around, of at least making an attempt to recognize themselves. As long as such a decision is not made, the process toward isolation will continue. “Das Sicli- Finden,” then, is man’s foremost task in life. It is only after having...

... entiers chaque jour je la vois, Et crois toujours le voir pour la premi6re fois. (11, ii, 545-546.) Nothing is more moving than the grief of Bkrknice when she learns of Titus’ decision : . . . et pour jamais, adieu. Pour...

...” and then esiablishes the relationship between these two no- tions and time. In the rihiiances, characters face decisions that may be con- strued in terms of natural love (generative) ancl unnatural love (destructive), and those decisions “unleash either the destructive or creative energies of nature...

...- structive love” and then esiablishes the relationship between these two no- tions and time. In the rihiiances, characters face decisions that may be con- strued in terms of natural love (generative) ancl unnatural love (destructive), and those decisions “unleash either the destructive or creative...

... fully the sheer craftsman- ship of the poem. Stein simplifies the matter for us by emphasizing one gov- erning fact that determined a majority of Milton’s decisions. Before Book 9, the story had to avoid the postlapsarian techniques of chronological ordering because Milton could not risk...

... he expect the interview to accomplish this? Claggart would have accused, and Billy would have denied. There seems to be no relevant reason for Vere’s decision. Claggart had suggested that there was substantiating evidence not far away, but Vere had not sent for it, since he...

... reality of things: forever with us and forever posing the unending task of man’s existential decision. This, then, is the trap of our perennial “situation”-the need of an existential decision which will have to be our very own, while at the same time placed in an inescapable setting...

..., this side of perfection. The apportionment of space, on which to be sure no two students would agree, seems puzzling at times; for example, Denis Amiel is given as much space as Marcel AymC, and Valery Larbaud gets more than La Rochefoucauld. The apparent decision not to include articles...

... look at the scale of fictional values of Bennett’s time and ours. The two tcrms are here used in a special sense. Geiierally, one’s decision to renounce one extreme and to search for the virtues of another provides a beginning, a crucial decision (like those of Hcnry James’s Xcwman...

... thoughts and actions providing the norms of the story? Given Saturn’s decisive role in the Knight’s Tale, does this interpretation point true? Muscatine thoroughly disposes of the view that sees a crucial distinc- tion in character between the two knight Admitting the lack of con...

... their power of action and “extorts decisions from them.”ll It cannot be denied that some of the shock techniques of his Aliena- tion Effect have contributed greatly to the success of his plays both am SchifTbauerdamm and off Broadway. He uses boards and stream- ers across the stage...

...-can prove to have vital analytic power. Decisively establishing the centrality of the casket scene to the play’s vision, Halpern’s account marks an important development in our recep- tion of the play. His examination of the distinction between incision and decision, modes of choosing...