...B. Bernard Cohen WILLIAM HAZLITT : BONAPARTIST CRITIC OF THE EXCURSION By 13. BERNARDCOHEN In 1517 Williaiii Hazlitt published Thc Roziizd Tabls, a collection of some of his and Leigh Hunt’s essays...

... intent of the series or with the true present state of Shakespeare studies. WILLIAMPEERY University of Texas The Excursion: A Study. By JUDSON STANLEYLYON. New Haven: Yale Studies in English, Vol. 114, 1950. Pp. x + 152...

... for the United Kingdom) is in keeping either with the international intent of the series or with the true present state of Shakespeare studies. WILLIAMPEERY University of Texas The Excursion: A Study. By JUDSON STANLEYLYON. New...

... a part, much disappointed. He is a slave Mary Shelley’s unfavorable appraisal of The Excursion (1814) did not long remain within the confines of the Shelley household. In “To Wordsworth,” which appeared in the Alastur volume of 18 16, Shelley explains the disappointment referred to by Mary...

... : Cornell University Press . Wordsworth William . 2007 . The Excursion . Edited by Bushell Sally , Butler James , and Jaye Michael C. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Wordsworth William . 2013 . Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 . Edited by Stafford Fiona...

...” in Excursion 111, 458? 2. Will you indicate, by giving the first and last words, the precise sen- tence in which I scold Aldous Huxley for entertaining the idea that Words- worth ignored the violence of nature? 3. Will you indicate, by giving the first and last words, the precise sen...

..., and The White Doe of Rylstone all concern themselves with the relation of sorrow and suffering to the character of men. So, too, does most of The Excursion. The solution Wordsworth evolves is orthodox : suffering can develop character and exalt the soul nearer to God, and in this way evil...

... Like preceding volumes in this edition, the present text, with its valuable notes and variants, will be indispensable to the Wordsworth scholar. Volume V, now in progress, will contain The Excursion, together with some unpub- lished passages of blank verse which appear to the editor...

..., “Parts of the idealized descriptions of the Wanderer to be found in Book 1 of The Excursion were in fact written first for The Prelude as self-description and put afterwards into the later poem as descriptions of someone else” (p. 378). “In fact,” they were nothing of the kind; they were...

... of the keenest thinkers of the age. Mr. Matthiessen cannot resist the invitation to wander down some interesting by-paths. In treating the subject of functionalism in art the author takes an excursion into the writings of Horatio Greenough and later he takes some time off to write about Millet...

... that appears in some of his poetry, including sections of The PreZude, and because of disingenuous remarks he made about his mathe- matical abilities. The Prelude presents enough passages to the con- trary, but it is seldom read in its entirety, and the drowsy epic The Excursion (18 14), another...

... volumes in this edition, the present text, with its valuable notes and variants, will be indispensable to the Wordsworth scholar. Volume V, now in progress, will contain The Excursion, together with some unpub- lished passages of blank verse which appear to the editor to be related either...

... in this edition, the present text, with its valuable notes and variants, will be indispensable to the Wordsworth scholar. Volume V, now in progress, will contain The Excursion, together with some unpub- lished passages of blank verse which appear to the editor to be related either...

... remarked in the third book of The Excursion that “Mutability is Nature’s bane” (v. 458), and who, in his Guide through the District of the Lakes . . ., objected to the Alps because they suggested havoc, ruin, encroachment, and decay. To the later Wordsworth the tranquil, not the terrible...

...” an argument. When the subject is the 80 REVIEWS Victorian age, the novel has been the preferred genre for such excursions, for the nineteenth-century novel is generally, and rightly, held to be the clearest mirror of the social life...

... 85 It is to Samson’s humanity that Low returns in his final paragraph, and his study evokes through a series of “excursions” the mix of joy and grief we all endure and love. One aim of these excursions is synthetic, to fuse Christian and classical, base and noble, divine and human, love...

... see intermittently that the world is one big practical joke. The study of the clown’s role in the theater and in life offers every tempta- tion to make excursions into that unholy territory of psychology and an- thropology; indeed, the understanding of the theater’s place in society must...

... on this subject. 6 See Jago’s Edge-H ill; Mallet’s Excursion; Thomson’s Seasons; and others. 7 Pope’s unblushing statement (in his Design of the Essay on Man) must shock believers in the “unuttcrable Me” school of psychology : “The sciecce of human nature is, like all other sciences, reduced...

... and, in a smaller voice, deplore” (p. 55). In the “interplay between the ideal and the actual” (p. 61) found in the Poems of 1807, The Prelude, Guide to the Lakes, Home at Grasmere, and The Excursion, Simpson traces this ambivalent, divided subject that invokes a social or public discourse to figure its own...

... 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...