...Huntington Brown THE GLOSS TO THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER By HUNTINGTONBROWN When we read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, we are invited to imagine that the poet was a minstrel of long ago. The poem has enough of the features of a popular ballad to convey...

...” as a Gloss Upon “Paradise Lost.” By MAURICEKELLEY. Princeton University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv + 269. $5.00. Since its translation and publication in 1825, Milton’s De Doc- trina Christiana has been regarded by some as the “prose counter- part” of Paradise Lost; by others, in spite...

...Jane Acomb Leake Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 MIDDLE ENGLISH GLOSSES IN THE BEOWULF-CODEX By JANE ACOMBLEAKE Despite Kenneth Sisam’s proof that Beowutf is part of a codex in- cluding four other pieces and that the whole was compiled about...

... poem and eventually adds explanations of various types. Coleridge’s gloss to The Rime looks like the result of the same kind of process but, fundamentally, is its opposite: the gloss is a dramatization of the craving for explanation stories generate instead of the explanation itself. In this way...

.... Robinson and Raymond P. Tripp Jr. have challenged and even demolished some of Klaeber’s glosses, they do not examine what they consider his “flawed” glosses in ideological terms.5 Because the entire philological aspect of Klaeber’s work has until recently been viewed as nonideological, his...

... gloss which, allegedly, was meant to clarify the poem’s geographical and moral directions. Wordsworth regarded the gloss as a superfluous after- thought, and later critics have likewise had difficulties in defining its function. Recentl’y, William Empson has made a strong case against...

... of “Kubla Khan” and “The Ancient Mariner,” the reader-surrogate or nega- tive interpretive model is present in the prose commentary that accompanies the poems: the preface to “Kubla Khan,” the gloss to “The Ancient Mar- iner.” (Wheeler sees the Wedding Guest-correctly, I think-as a partici- pating...

... 19: 14, “Non maledices surdo, nec coram caeco pones offendiculum” (in the Douay translation, “Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind The deaf to whom the passage refers are glossed variously by the commentators as representing either the inno...

... we turn to Pur., we find these words to be considerably more common --counting the glossed instances, they occur about once every 135 words. (The comparison is not unfair, and probably, in fact, makes the difference seem less than it is; the glossarial record for Erk. is incomplete...

... noted a number of unusual words and phrases;@but there has been no detailed examination of the vocabu- lary such as I intend to attempt here. The features of the vocabulary which are of particular interest are : (1) its resemblances to the Old English glossed Psalters, both...

... from the poetry itself, Ferry proceeds to compile and gloss a list of the terms available in the sixteenth century to writers who elected to describe “inward experience.” The results-a series of extended glosses on such words and phrases as “indiuiduum,” “secrets,” “know thy self,” “the closet...

... Professor Skeat commented on this passage, he seemed to believe that the Cook was suffering from a serious diction, inasmuch as in his discussion he preferred the definition of “a cancer or gangrene.”2 The later editors of the Globe Edition of Chaucer merely glossed the word as “gangrene,”3 thus...

... to 150, from late ninth or early tenth, and prose portion, Psalms 1 to 50, either Early or Late West Saxon) and the Old English glossed Psalters are also referred to. Among the twelve glossed Psalters two especially were observed, the Vespasian (first half of the ninth) and Eadwine’s...

... glosses the noun stour as follows : (1) A quarrel, strife, bustle, commotion ; a state of perturbation ; trouble, vexa- tion; an excitement of any kind. (2) A stiff‘ breeze, a storm. (3) Dust, especially dust in motion; used also of fine, driven snow, or chaff, or any substance in a state...

... by Richard Hurleston, influential justice of the peace there, in order to lessen the “Romish power.”24 Catholicism is attacked in the argument before “May,” in the fable of the Fox and the Kid, and in many of E.K.’s glosses. The only direct reflection on Puritanism occurs in the gloss on “Some...

... of the emperor: “nunc pro inuocatione de- risionem ipsius neronis ponit cui deificationem yronice promittit” (i. 45), and again (i. 37) “hoc de nerone totum yronice.” 6 E. Faral, loc. cit. 6 B. M. Marti, “Three new glosses from Vacca’s Commentary on Lucan,” Class. Phil., xxxvi (1941) p. 64...

... MARINER By STEWARTC. WILCOX* In his revisions of 77ze Ancient Mariner, Coleridge struggled to make clearer the significances of the theme. The most obvious of these efforts is the gloss. Yet his alteration of the epigraphic Argu- ment of 1798 for the second edition...

... On the “centripetal” tendencies of midcentury English government, see Hindle 2000 . On the influence of these flexible jurisdictions on the literary imagination, see Cormack 2007 . 20 Hutson ( 2007 : 205) calls such glosses “government health warning[s]” that “pre-empt the reader’s inferential work...

... noisily.” However that may be, the result, in part, is a troubling thin- ness and indirection in his glosses; and this is especially unfortunate, be- cause the gloss, as I see it, is Donoghue’s chief value as a critic, his forte. The larger consequence is a book that, spectral in thesis...

... was afraid of being boring, or of appearing to grind his axe, as he says, “too noisily.” However that may be, the result, in part, is a troubling thin- ness and indirection in his glosses; and this is especially unfortunate, be- cause the gloss, as I see it, is Donoghue’s chief value as a critic, his...