...J. H. E. Slater 370 Reviews Savage Landor. By MALCOLMELWIN. New York : Macmillan Com- pany, 1941. Pp. 498. $4.00. In the first biography of Landor to appear in more than sixty years, Malcolm Elwin tries to present a sympathic portrait of a man who...

...R. H. Super Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 WHEN LANDOR LEFT HOME By R. H. SUPER In his recent biography of Walter Savage Landor, Mr. Malcolm Elwin gives substantially the same account of Landor’s separation from his wife...

..., let alone a hundred; and the many echoes probably do more to harm than help the poem. As Johnson observed of the Pastorals (1709), Pope is showing his litera- ture,6 and not always felicitously. One suspects that Elwin’s judgment regarding one of Pope’s rare uses of “misapplied language...

...- ceedingly generous sampling of a critical era, with the Elwin- Courthope edition as a controversial vortex. In the year 1944 it is well to be reminded that Pope could be blamed (by the John Dennis of 1870) for writing “none of the verses which children love,” while Ruskin in the same year could...

... held up delivery 1 Gay, Poetical Works, ed. Faber (Oxford. 1926), p. xxxvi. 2Pope to Caryll, June 8, 1714, Works, ed. Elwin-Courthope, VI, 210. Cf. Warburton’s account, ibid., I, 233-4. 3 Sir Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, new ed. (New York), I, 141 ; cf. his Pope (London, 1914...

...Horace G. Rahskopf vestigation regarding both life and works, it is to be regretted that Mr. Elwin has not included in his biography either footnotes or any extensive discussion of sources. J. H. E. SLATER University of Washington...

... 293-300 and n. (ed. cit., pp. 138-39) ; Bk. 111, line 2811. (ed. cit., p. 153) ; and Index (ed. cit., p. 245). 14 Works of Alexander Pope, ed. Whitwell Elwin and William J. Courthope (London, 1881), 111,270. 15 Pp. 123-24. In his DNB article on Welsted, Aitken also adopted the Court...

..., and to whom his most secret transactions are laid l pen John Croker also read for Murray and was especially helpful in the department of memoirs and letters. Another reader for the firm of Murray was Whitwell Elwin. After resigning from the editorship of the Quarterly Review in 1860, Elwin...

... that Alexander Pope in his “Receipt To Make an Epic Poem” (see Elwin- Courthope Pope [London, 18861, X, 402. Pope’s skit was originally contributed to The Guardian) alludes to it satirically, thus: “FORTHE MACHINES. Take of Deities, male and female, as many as you can use: separate them into two equal...

... in Elwin- Courthope, X, 51. 307 308 Early History of Thomson’s ‘Liberty’ The letter of October 10, 1732, also connects with the pre-history of Liberty by describing an early step taken toward securing the patronage of Frederick, Prince of Wales...

... truth, they talk of a stable with so much warmth and affection, I cannot help suspecting some very powerful motive at the bottom of it.32 20 November 29, 1726. Correspondence, ed. Ball, 111, 370. 30 With the following extract, taken from Whitwell Elwin and William John...

... with Wigs, with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive, Beaus banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive (100-01). See Pope’s letters to Caryll in Pope’s Works, ed. Elwin-Courthope, VI (1871),17 199, 207. William Frost 351 Of the parallels referred...

... intrigue was unfolded in an article in the Athenaeum for Sept. 8, 1860,Q which was reprinted in the author’s Papers of a Critic (London, 1875), I, 297 ff. See also the Elwin-Courthope edition of Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1871), VI, 419 ff. 10 Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, Plays...

... a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled : The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!S5 34 IV, 10, p. 303. Italics mine. 36Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle 11, lines 3-18 (ecl. Elwin and Courthope, LYo~ks,11, 375-76). Samuel...

... than both of you to- gether, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.’ Instinctively, one feels that the nephew would not have written a good life of his uncle, or even of Pope. However, ’the poet could hardly have fared worse than he actually did at the hands of the Rev. Whitwell Elwin...

... draft for the Epistle to Arbulhnot, Pope named Duckett as a patron of Oldmixon (Works of rllexander Pope, etl. F Elwin anti W. J. Courthope [London, 1872-1889], 111, 260, n. 6). 338 CON G K E V E ’S F 1 K S‘ 1. €3 1 OG K A P H E K ,\bout the same Time, George...