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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 127–161.
Published: 01 June 1997
...) and Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Litrature (1996). His book on early Tudor literature is forthcoming. The Genre of the Grave and the Origins of the Middle English Lyric Seth Lerer Written along the top margin of a late-twelfth-century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 March 1968
... of,Stephen Ullrnann’s for Du c6tt de chez Swann, remains to be done for the rest of the novel. PHILIPKOLB University of Illinois Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir. By DANIELHOFFMAN. New York: Oxford...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 June 1969
...Peter J. Graves Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 E. T. A. HOFFMANN’S JOHAJSJ’NES KREISLER VERRUCKTER MUSIKUS”? By PETERJ. GRAVES It is one of the ironies and tragedies of literary history that the two prospectively...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 243–259.
Published: 01 September 1966
... indebtedness to him is as great as such a thing ever should be. And I derive the method I am using from Mr. Robert Graves’ analysis of a Shakespeare Sonnet, “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame,” in A Survey of Modernist Poetry. Richards’ part in the making of the theory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 447–448.
Published: 01 December 1971
... performance of Mr. Robert Graves in your pages, in September 1966, in which he added to his progres- sive and extensive snappings-upfrom the thought-su bstance, speech-substance, work-substance, of mine, the trove of “most of the detailed examination of poems in A Suivey of Modernist Poetry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 323–332.
Published: 01 December 1952
... to a view of the play as a whole in which the theme of emotive deficiency and excess dominates the main plot, the sub-plot, the soliloquies, and the player episodes. This theme, moreover, evolves dramatically and cumulatively from the beginning to its ironical conclusion in the grave scene. So...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 85–114.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Literature, offers excerpts of A Survey of Modernist Poetry, the barbed, astute study Riding coauthored with Rob- ert Graves. Cary Nelson’s Anthology of Modern American Poetry, published in 2001, includes three of Riding’s poems, where the old Norton stan- dard Modern Poetry had none. In the same...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 445–447.
Published: 01 December 1971
... performance of Mr. Robert Graves in your pages, in September 1966, in which he added to his progres- sive and extensive snappings-upfrom the thought-su bstance, speech-substance, work-substance, of mine, the trove of “most of the detailed examination of poems in A Suivey of Modernist Poetry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 116–120.
Published: 01 March 1968
.... PHILIPKOLB University of Illinois Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir. By DANIELHOFFMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. xvi + 266 pp. $6.00. A man’s mind is known by the words that attend it. Daniel Hoffman’s mind is attended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 374–385.
Published: 01 December 1963
... to understand the limitations of such an appealing faith when he postulates that his mother, if she could pray from beyond the grave, would pray that God remove his pride, which is all that stands between him and God. The low-key ending of the stanza undercuts this argument: he points out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 619–624.
Published: 01 December 1941
...-Hand Motive in Hauptmann’s Romanticism bed he would never take-he goes with due reverence to Frau Henschel’s grave and asks her advice on the matter: Mutter, sagt ich in mein’n Gedanken, gib mir a Zeichen! Ja oder nee? So wie’s ausfallt, soil mir’s recht sein. An’ halbe Stunde hab...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 1975
... article and in accompanying matter by Mr. Empson and Mr. Robert Graves, I found objectionable references to and comments on my work, and on myself personally, and specially invidious ones in respect to A Suwey ofModernist Poetry (of which I was the first au- thor, Robert Graves...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 131–133.
Published: 01 June 1951
... soldiers, who were “in miserie and disorder for want of pay.” Then, after launching into a detailed account of the first military action-the relief of Grave, in Brabant- he reports in rapid sequence the success of Leicester’s troops under Count Hollock and Sir John Norris in victualing Grave...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 1975
... article and in accompanying matter by Mr. Empson and Mr. Robert Graves, I found objectionable references to and comments on my work, and on myself personally, and specially invidious ones in respect to A Suwey ofModernist Poetry (of which I was the first au- thor, Robert Graves...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 September 2003
... but the siege itself is expanded with episodes detailing loy- alties and alliances organized by feudal obligation, baronial councils, siege warfare, famine, and reprovisioning expeditions—all of which reimagine ancient story in terms of recent military experience. J. J. Salverda de Grave...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1940
... to be generally accepted. “Lord Lovel” (Child, No. 75) and “Der Ritter und die Maid” tell of a man who, after deserting his sweet- heart, learns of her death and dies or kills himself on her grave.28 In some versions, both English and German, roses spring from the two graves. Rudolph Thietz, who...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 223–227.
Published: 01 September 1960
...” but is more like Hamlet’s spontaneous leap into Ophelia’s grave. It is worth remembering, too, with Bowers (1940), that King Leur was written when the older revenge-drama was evolving into a form more suited to the artificial and sensational tastes of the Jacobean age. The earlier plays...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 December 1947
... but has nothing to say about the possible “framing” of Malory when the unscrupulous Duke not only charged Malory with trying to murder him, but presided over the indicting Justices on August 25, 1451. It seems a grave pity that Chambers should have lent the authority of a great name...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 61–67.
Published: 01 March 1944
..., and wreaths of Flowers : Ile writeno more, nor will I tell or sing Of Cupid, and his wittie coozning: Ile sing no more of death, or shall the grave No more my Dirges, and my Trentalls have (“On Himselfe,” p. 228). Only two of his poems are actually entitled dirges...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 145–161.
Published: 01 June 1987
... “SONG OF MYSELF” The final interpretation, “And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves” (1 lo), is the most mysterious and requires fourteen lines of exegesis before the poet points to the mystical doctrine of metempsychosis. Paradoxically, Whitman uses the most...