...Francis E. Litz Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 POPE AND TWICKENHAM’S FAMOUS PREACHER By FRANCISE. LITZ When Jeremiah Seed was on his way to Twickenham Chapel in the spring of 1733’ to become curate2 to Dr. Daniel...

...), and in a famous passage near the beginning of Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1851–52), a future poetry was greeted as an original poetry. In each of these instances, however, breaking with the past entailed imitating it, which suggests that poetry's future looks much like its past, the way...

... commission to write the Franciade , but also Joachim Du Bellay were exploring epic as a change from love poetry. Having formally renounced Petrarchist lyric, Du Bellay drew on his experience in the French diplomatic service in Rome to compose his most famous sonnet collection, the Regrets . Although...

... to be framed as a choice between symbolic economy (Casanova's “universal” literary capital) and political economy (the focus of many Latin Americanist scholars on hegemonic constructions of modernity). Yet the unique circumstances of Mundial —published in Paris by Spanish America's most famous poet, composed...

... of quantification (culminating in Karl Marx's famous critique of commodity fetishism), aesthetics founded its theory of value on the cornerstone of subjective and imaginative value attribution. This essay examines two German Romantic thinkers, the economist Johann Georg Schlosser and the writer E. T. A. Hoffmann...

...Glyn Salton-Cox Abstract Reading Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories (1935–39) through an important debate in the Marxist aesthetics of the period between Sergei Tretiakov and Georg Lukács, this article argues that Isherwood’s famous statement “I am a camera” should be reimagined...

...Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Abstract The Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscience , his most famous novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s...

...James Kuzner Abstract This essay considers the relation between lyric utterance, dramatic irony, and intellectual disability in King Lear , particularly in Lear’s famous address to Cordelia—which begins with “Come, let’s away”—just before Edmund sends both to prison. Reading “Come, let’s away...

...John Guillory Abstract This essay takes as its point of departure the later writing of I. A. Richards, which never achieved the influence of his famous books of the 1920s. In these later writings Richards was concerned largely with issues in language education and, relatedly, with the emergence...

.... 448 Emmett L. Azwy 449 The references to authorship generally appear in two forms. One is a direct statement of the author’s name, usually with a descriptive word; for example, “Written by the Famous Ben. John~onThe other is a reference, usually...

... Rudo 1p h Fieh1 er . 17 (3) In the old play Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, Old- castle, familiarly called Jockie, occupies the place of Falstaff as one of Prince Hal’s thieving followers. (4) The 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV has a mistaken speech-prefix Old. where one would...

... of thoughts on the subjects touched upon in the famous soliloquy and wove their phrases into his texture, shap- ing and adjusting the product with his own inimitable skill. It is, of course, untenable to imagine that there is a source or modifying influence for every line in Hamlet’s speech...

... shows that the form hopen (rhyming with gehroepen, an unusual form for gehroupen) in a Middle Dutch translation of the famous work Speculunz huntana salvationis is a corruption by the copyist, who did not know the original word. This must have been a verb woepen, of which no instance has...

...- ship has been treated in detail by Mr. Vincent in his recent book, Byron, Hob- house, and Foscolo (1949). Yet Foscolo deserves to be remembered in his own right, for during the eleven years of his exile in England until his death in 1827 he was a famous and colorful figure in literary...

... of film rights had on American literary production differs drastically from Sinclair Lewis’s ( 1925 ) more famous declaration in December of that year about John Dos Passos’s style in Manhattan Transfer : “It is, indeed, the technique of the movie, in its flashes, its cut-backs, its speed.” Made only...

... in importance and character according to the pre- vailing political and social conditions of the day. At a time when other Italian dialects were yielding to Tuscan, which in spite of the famous quarrel was steadily developing into the national language of Italy, Provenqal was enjoying a short...

... Lcar- aid tltc Merlirt Traditim contemporary Arthurian source.* Other Arthurian allusions appear in Merlin’s prophecy (111, ii, 80-95) and in Edgar’s famous con- cluding lines in 111, iv. The “prophecy” may be passed over briefly, as it may or may not have been written...

... with his lecture/essay. Take, for instance, Qian’s remarks on the 1978 play Wang Zhaojun , by Cao Yu. The eponymous heroine is a famous Han beauty, a concubine of a Han emperor, who for diplomatic reasons was given in marriage to a northern nomadic leader in—roughly—present-day Mongolia. In his preface...

... excellent translation. The fourth of these stories, the famous “Lettre d‘un fou,” is of special psychological and artistic interest. An important aspect of Mr. Steegmuller’s biography is his explanation of the origin of the Maupassant short story. A chapter devoted to the two newspapers...

... which Klaus Mann (in his famous letter to the older writer, reprinted in its entirety in the notes to this book) explains and criticizes more cogently perhaps than anyone else. Finally, the author indicates that Benn as poet, in spite of his ideological and moral confusions, remained true...