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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 111.
Published: 01 March 1943
...Chandler B. Beall D. P. Rotunda. Bloomington: Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series No. 2, 1942. Pp. xxxii + 216. $2.00. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Chandler B. Beall 111 Universal Author Repertoire of Italian Essay...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 465–472.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Mark Edmundson Geoffrey H. Hartman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. 252 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 REVIEWS Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars. By GEOFFREY H. HART- UAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 240.
Published: 01 June 1944
...Louis B. Wright Jean Robertson, London: University of Liverpool Press, 1942. Pp. 80. 7/6. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 240 Reviews The Art of Letter Writing: An Essay on the Handbooks Publislwd in England dztring the Sixteenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 March 1946
.... FRANKH. RISTINE Hamilton College The Secret Diary of IVilliam Byrd of Westover, 1709-1 712. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHTand MARIONTINLING. Richmond, Virginia : The Dietz Press, 1941. Pp. xxv + 622. $5.00. An Essay Upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 246–247.
Published: 01 June 1946
...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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 1978
..., and no topic of importance to the criticism of Sidney’s work has been neglected. ROBERTL. MONTGOMERY Uniuersity of Calfornia, Inline Conjnement and Flight: An Essay on English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. By W. B. CARNOCHAN.Berkeley...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 297–300.
Published: 01 September 1981
... the author’s. John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist is a stimulating, even entertaining, essay in re-creation, but it should be used with caution. CHARLESR. FORKER Indiana University 2 See Lake, The Canon of Thomas Middleton? Plays (London...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 329–332.
Published: 01 September 1985
... deal more about “the world around them about truth and self, cosmos and destiny, suffer- ing and friendship, than we have been accustomed to assume. CAROLINEWALKER BYNUM University of Washington Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on “Troilus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1969
...JOSEPH BENTLEY Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 SEMANTIC GRAVITATION AN ESSAY ON SATIRIC REDUCTION By JOSEPH BENTLEY Aldous Huxley’s novels are a rich source of materials for the study of satiric...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 356–369.
Published: 01 September 1969
...John Sutherland Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 WIT, REASON, VISION, AND AN ESSAY ON MAN By JOHN SUTHERLAND To argue that the Essay on Man is witty, in Pope’s own sense of that term, must seem far less controversial than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 385–388.
Published: 01 September 1970
.... JAMES DOOLITTLE University ojRochester Kousseau’s “Social Contract”: An Interpretive Essay. By LESTERG. CROCKER. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1968. xi + 198 pp. $6.95. The Kousseauan canon, as the general reader knows, comprises a number of minor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 March 1973
... University of Toronto The Transcendental Masque: An Essay on Milton’s “Comus.” By ANGUS FLETCHER.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1971. xiv 4- 261 pp. $10.00. What one will makeof this lively and valuable book is perhaps implicit in his response to the evocative...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 March 1967
... of Georges Bernanos: An Essay in Interpretation. By GERDABLUMENTHAL. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. xxi + 154 pp. $4.50. Georges Bernanos’ great strength as a novelist lies in his ability to create mood and atmosphere and to sustain them by means of obsessive patterns of imagery...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (3): 305–316.
Published: 01 September 1967
...Nancy K. Lawlor Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 POPE’S ESSAY ON MAN OBLIQUE LIGHT FOR A FALSE MIRROR By NANCYK. LAWLOR At one point in his preface to An Essay on Man, Pope says: “If I could flatter myselE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Robert J. Ellrich B. Ellis Madeline. Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii + 199 pp. $6.00; 48s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay upon Art and Truth in “Les Confes- sions.” By MADELEINEB...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 322–325.
Published: 01 June 1941
... prac- titioners of historical-bibliographical writing to shoot at. ARTHURM. COON Beloit College Milton’s Contemporary Reputation: An Essay together with “A Tentative List of Printed Allusiom to Milton, 1641-1674,” and facsimile...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 403–405.
Published: 01 December 1961
...-to our own apocalyptic situation in the nuclear age. AUGUSTCLOSS Uiiiversity of Bristol Some Graver Subject: An Essay on Paradise Lost. By J. B. BROADBENT.New York: Barnes and Noble, 1960. Pp. 268. $6.00. In this critical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 5–21.
Published: 01 March 1964
...W. B. Carnochan Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 GULLZVER’S TRAVELS; AN ESSAY ON THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING? By W.B. CARNOCHAN The final book of Gulliver‘s Travels has so compelled the attention of Swift’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 226–227.
Published: 01 June 1964
.... This is a testi- mony to the nobility of her character. PAULLF. BAUM University of North Carolina The Poetry of Clough: An Essay in Revaluation. By WALTERE. HOUGH- TON. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. xii + 236. $5.00...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 367–370.
Published: 01 September 1950
... is not the whole of man,” as Mr. Brown reminds us, and “excursions into practical criticism are always creditable to the artist as citizen.” WILLIAMD. TEMPLEMAN University of Southern California Essays and Sketches. By JOHN HENRYCARDINAL NEWMAN...