... a habitation of devils. Milton’s point-by-point response to the antimodel of Waller’s poem reveals specific topicality and political engagement in the motifs of Paradise Lost : in this sense, Milton is a poet of the restoration he opposes. Waller, too, internalizes the oracle that he sets in St. James’s Park...

... is, perhaps, the right approach to my real subject—the entanglements of worldwide relation,” the essay argues for an understanding of world poetry as the accumulated philological history of poetic folkways, habits of use, sociological institutions, formations, and conjunctures that group around the term...

..., folks”—en route from Romanticism to Leavisism and New Criticism, with a quick nod to Matthew Arnold. This essay works against this habit, introducing and analyzing the intellectual legacy of the idealist philosopher T. H. Green, whose life and work inspired generations of liberal-thinking students...

...Dawn Coleman Abstract Critiquing the literary-critical habit of approaching religion primarily in terms of individual belief, this essay proposes that the sociologist Danièle Hervieu-Léger’s definition of religion as a “lineage of belief” can reorient literary scholars to religion’s investment...

... OF GODOT By ROBERTM. TORRANCE “The creature of habit,” Samuel Beckett solemnly writes in his essay on Proust, “turns aside from the object that cannot be made to corres- pond with one or other of his intellectual prejudices, that resists the propositions of his team...

..., which is responsible for the beauty of certain proportions, 7 Samuel Monk has commented on the suggestion of the association of ideas in 11, ii. See his work on the Sublime (New York, 1935), p. 93. Martin Kallich 129 operates slowly through habit...

... says : “It is the Faustian habit of mind, the pre-eminently German habit. It is far, indeed, from ignoble, alid it probes very deep. But the spirit of this earth rejects it, you will remember.” Professor Butler broadly surveys the whole field under the aspect of two terms: “Mystery and wonder...

..., and occasionally ardent and enthusiastic, is perhaps in its genuine habits too tranquil and unimpassioned for successful composition, and stands greatly in need of stimulus and excitement. I am deeply indebted in this point to H~poftThis is emphasized by another confession : “I am subject to long...

... a reverence for books as talismanic objects with a personal devotion to the stories and characters they contain; one that is predicated not on the thrill of novelty but on the pleasure of familiarity, the habit of rereading, and the comfort of a bedtime ritual. Deidre Shauna Lynch’s new book Loving...

... position in the nineteenth century “by redefining the gentlemanly ideal to fit a middle- class rather than an aristocratic context.” After receiving a gcntleman’s educa- tion, as it was understood in the 1820’s and 30’s, Thackeray tried to follow the vulgar, lazy. and ostentatious habits of his...

... habit of presentation in the works of seven poets: Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, and W. B. Yeats. Her best essays are those which treat poets in whom the device of metamorphosis is an informing principle of structure...

... the extant writings. Yost finds other evidences of unscholarly habits in Browne’s use of Aristotle: sometimes he ascribes to Aristotle words or opinions which are not his; sometimes he has evidently not read the whole of the work from hhich he quotes; sometimes he mis- interprets. Yost treats...

... illustrate what she calls “the casuistical habit of mind” than others, but all merit consideration from her perspective. Shakespeare earns a place in the book for his concern with problems of moral choice and with the consequences of acting against conscience in Richard 111, Julius Caesar, Hamlet...

... and understand Julien’s hypocrisy and know that his priestly mode of dress corresponds more exactly to his duplicity. Well into the novel, Julien consciously reflects on this fact, “ ‘Moi, pauvre paysan du Jura, . . . moi, condamn6 B porter toujours ce triste habit noir! . . . Eh bien!’ se dit-il en...

... on Howells as “a writer about language” (p. ix). Such a study has been overdue, for as Nettels notes aptly, “no other American novelist before or since has written so fully about so many aspects of language; no other has commented so often on the habits of speech of characters or placed...

... ques- tions, getting drunk, and telling stories. He was filthy in his habits, dirty, lousy, and offensive. When his admirers and well-wishers, hoping to improve his habits, sent him to Copenhagen to study, he spent his days and nights with the bums on the waterfront. He in- sulted...

... motions” that prompt his decision to attend the feast of Dagon. Its strength lies in refining our sense of the nature of Samson’s choices and the way his mind works in making them. One might question the extent to which the habits of mind Slights identifies in these writers are truly...

... an ideological read- ing suspect. On the other side, it is possible to find evidence in the work and its several versions of a thinking through and rethinking of moral and psychological issues. One of the many virtues of Lind- heim’s study is the demonstration of Sidney’s habit of holding more than...

... evidence in their assembled materials that Shakespeare was an apprentice to the law. For the quality of one reference in its proper background might outweigh any quantity of references. Quantitative parallels with fellow dramatists give us only the literary habits of these authors. For, as our...