...Dwight Eddins Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ORPHIC CONTRA GNOSTIC RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN GRAVITY’S RAINBOW By DWIGHTEDDINS The most common assumption among the critics of GmuityS Ruin- bow seems...

...Dwight Eddins Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 QUITTING THE GAME AUDEN’S THE SEA AND THE MIRROR By DWIGHTEDDINS The primary danger that an aesthetic religion presents-from the viewpoint of both...

...Dwight Eddins WALLACE STEVENS AMERICA THE PRIMORDIAL By DWIGHTEDDINS In his essay on Wallace Stevens, William York Tindall perceptively asserts: “No poet since Whitman has loved America more He might well have...

.... xi + 453. $4.50. This critical interpretation of four eighteenth-century men of let- ters, John Trumbull, David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Timothy Dwight, is welcome, for information is lacking on the writings of these “Wits,” who for a time made Connecticut the literary center...

...W. David Shaw Culler A. Dwight. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. x + 276 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 82 REVIEWS better than those of most novelists who were not so, in any...

..., “Virgil’s Georgics and the British Poets, American Journal of PhiEoEogy, XXIX (1908), 1-32; Marie Loretto Lilly, The Georgic, Hesperia, Supp. Ser., No. 6 (Baltimore, 1919) ; and Dwight L. Durling, Georgic Tradition in English Poetry, Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative...

... interpretation of four eighteenth-century men of let- ters, John Trumbull, David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Timothy Dwight, is welcome, for information is lacking on the writings of these “Wits,” who for a time made Connecticut the literary center of America. The first chapter is an excellent...

... (the more important of the two) and the influence of America on Tieck. The present volume offers the results of this research. In Chapter I, Tieck‘s American visitors, among them Bancroft, Dwight, Ticknor, Motley, Lieber, and Follen, and his contacts with them are fully dis- cussed...

... Indiana University BOOKS RECEIVED AMERICAN Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Foreword by Winston S. Churchill. Webster Groves, Mo. : International Mark Twain Society ; London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1953. Pp...

... regarded itself as the place to do it. In 1859 Benjamin Dwight claimed that “in this country especially, our people, language and institutions have been borne through such an unsettled pioneer experience, that a strange unscholarly, if not indeed almost universal, indifference prevails among even...

... or black nationalist narratives of brotherly racial uplift. These Islamic slaves’ accounts of Timbuctoo led Theodore Dwight, the abolitionist reformer and first secretary of the American Ethnological Society, to argue in a series of articles in the Methodist Quarterly Review (1864) that the United...

..., A. Dwight. The Imperial Intellect: A Study of Newman’s Educational Ideal. New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xiii + 327. $5.00. Marks, Emerson R. Relativist and Absolutist : The Early Neoclassical Debate in England. New...

... them Bancroft, Dwight, Ticknor, Motley, Lieber, and Follen, and his contacts with them are fully dis- cussed. Of particular interest is the admiration of Follen for Tieck and his writings and its effect upon the early development of Germanic studies in America. Chapter 11...

... with the knowledge that other recent works, notably A. Dwight Culler’s Poetry of Tennyson (1977), are available as a corrective, then the criticism is not finally disabling. At the end of his study the author declares, “To focus on domestic themes and images, and on the forms of idyl( 1) and romance, as I...

...,” goes to explain why some of his admirers find him a little dry. A. LYTTONSELLS Indiana University BOOKS RECEIVED AMERICAN Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain and Dwight D...

... of Tennyson. By A. DWIGHTCULLER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977. x + 276 pp. $15.00. A. Dwight Culler has written a gracefully erudite book, in many ways a worthy sequel to his classic studies of Arnold and Newman. His original comments on the history...

...: University of California Press, 1977. ix + 201 pp. $10.95. Cook, Albert. Shakespeare’s Enactment: The Dynamics of Renaissance Theatre. Chi- cago: Swallow, 1976. xi + 257 pp. $18.95. Culler, A. Dwight. The Poetry of Tennyson. New Haven and London: Yale Univcr- sity Press, 1977. x + 276 pp...

... in English, Vol. 161, 1966. 262 pp. $6.50; 48s. Culler, A. Dwight. Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1966. 303 pp. $7.50; 56s. BOOKS RECEIVED 239 Dalton, Jack P., and Clive Hart...

... materials, al- most total dependence on Tristram, with only an occasional excursion into autonomous research. Reprints of the Apologia were frequent enough in the years following the appearance of Nedoncelle, but it was only with A. Dwight Culler’s text of 1956 that there was made available...

... Dwight kvhitney. Introductory essay by Roman Jakobson. Cambridge, Mass., and London: iLI ITPress, 1971. xlv + 360 pp. $12.50. Vinaver, Eughe. The Rise of Romance. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. x + 158 pp. $6.75. bVhite, John J. Mythology in the Modern Novel...