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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 184–197.
Published: 01 June 1949
...George J. Becker Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 REALISM : AN ESSAY IN DEFINITION By GEORGEJ. BECKER When, in the 1SSO’s at the high tide of the French Naturalistic movement, two French critics, A. David-Sauvageot and E.-M. de Vogiii...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 1949
... tolerance of what Mr. Stevenson calls the discrepancy between poetic iancy and crass human fact. HELENANDREWS KAUFMAN Gniversity of Washington -4s Tlicy Liked It : -49%Essay on Shakespeare and Morality. By ALFRED HARBAGE.New York: The Macmillan...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 16–32.
Published: 01 March 1949
...F. Andrew Brown Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ∗ Read in part before the General Literature Section of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 27, 1948. 1,OCKE’S “ESSAY” AND BODMER AKP BREITINGER By F. ANDREWHROWK...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 September 1949
... Vita Sua: Being a History of His Religiow Opinions. By JOHN HENRYCARDINAL NEWMAN. Edited with a Preface and Introduction by CHARLES FREDERICKHARROLD. New York, London, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1947. Pp. xxii 4- 400. $3.50. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2021) 82 (1): 81–117.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., Jarrell’s underestimated and enduring creative debt to T. S. Eliot by reconstructing, for the first time, a book-length essay that he planned to write about Eliot but abandoned. The article shows that Jarrell regarded Eliot’s work as the result of a psychological struggle with “obsessional neurosis...
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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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 310–311.
Published: 01 September 1952
... University of Washington Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide, with an Essay on Keats’ Repu- tation. By J. R. MACGILLIVRAY.Toronto : University of Toronto, Depart- ment of English, Studies and Texts, No. 3, 1949. Pp. lxxxi + 210. $5.00. Most of the writing about Keats since 1921...
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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 (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...