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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to an anterior temporal space. This essay offers a more differentiated history, examining Scottish and northern song collectors who differed from these formulations and provided distinct understandings of “the people” and of class. David Herd, for instance, used Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 1952
..., are instances where a character or an idea has been somewhat ob- scured by the exigencies of rhythm. For example, in lines 487, 498, and 1700. the word “wife” appears as a translation of “Weib.” To be sure, Mariamne is Herds wife, but the tension between them is rather the primeval one of man...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 1976
... of the gifts given to the Child by the shep- herds. The Child in the manger holding the bob of cherries, the bird, and the ball suggests iconographically Christ crucified and resurrected in majesty, the redeemer of man from Satan already come into His kingdom.6 And that suggestion is articulated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 29–40.
Published: 01 March 1962
.... Unfortunately, however, there is nothing to suggest that our ancestors were sporting in the modern sense. As an example, the following recommendation may be taken from the Gentlctnan’s Recrcation of Richard Rlome: “For facilitating the Chase, the Keeper commonly selects a fat Gzick out of the Herd...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 March 1977
... general feature of Elizabe- than aesthetic. Such questions also emerge from chapter 3, an analysis of the possibilities of the sestina tradition brought to bear on Sidney’s “Yee Goat-herd Gods.” Here there is a different order of both complexity and simplicity. By clefini- tion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 403–413.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, one of the great neglected works of British Romanticism, has its own com- plexities, which are explored in the new books by Fielding and McLane. Sorensen turns, however, to the eighteenth-century song collections of Joseph Ritson and David Herd, which refuse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 422–428.
Published: 01 December 1951
... . . . and the wing‘d air dark’t with plumes, The herds would over-multitude their Lords, IV Thronging the Seas with spawn The Sea o’refraught would swel . . . innumerable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (3): 193–198.
Published: 01 September 1956
... wolt by good conseil, I undertake, withouten mast and seyl. Yet shal I saven hire and thee and me. Hastow nat herd hou saved was Noe. (A 3531-34) The carpenter had heard the story “ful yoore ago” (A 3537...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 369–375.
Published: 01 December 1975
... revisions from the time it first appeared in print in 1717. Its tightly knit structure makes it more of a piece than the other stanzas: CVhose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in sumnier yield hiin shade...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 131–139.
Published: 01 June 1964
...; Hym thoughte hys sorwes were so smerte And lay so colde upon hys herte. So, throgh hys sorwe and hevy thoght, Made hym that he herde me noght; For he had we1 nygh lost hys mynde, Thogh Pan, that men clepe god of kynde...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 March 1969
..., and so ballad definition, is significant, as are Fowler’s description of medieval song tradition, his criticism of Child’s methods, his remarks on Robyn Hood, Percy, Herd, and Scott’s Mrs. Brown. Nonetheless, the pages are haunted-haunted by something that all col- lectors, all folklorists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 359–365.
Published: 01 December 1954
... story. The biblical Jacob is alone when he wrestles with the angel; the ape is one of a herd. Jacob is maimed in a hand-to-hand combat; the ape is hit from a distant ambush. The angel wrestles with Jacob qua Jacob; the hunting expedition fires not at Kafka’s ape, but at the herd...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 292–294.
Published: 01 September 1988
... and the Canterbury Tales Speculum, 58 (1983): 656-95; ‘“No man his reson herde’: Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer’s Miller, and the Structure of the Canter- bury Tales,” SAQ, 86 (1987): 457-95. 3 “The Troilus Frontispiece and the Dramatization of Chaucer’s Troilus,” ChauR, 22 (1987-88): 81-93. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 273–276.
Published: 01 September 1948
.... 65.7 pruiere appears for laudis: “3e folk, A. Laurence Muir 275 . . . makeb be voice of his praiere herd.” This use of praiere in the sense of luw is not recorded in NED. In Ps. 88.6 to translate con- fitebuntur we find graunten, although a variant reading...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 March 1969
..., as are Fowler’s description of medieval song tradition, his criticism of Child’s methods, his remarks on Robyn Hood, Percy, Herd, and Scott’s Mrs. Brown. Nonetheless, the pages are haunted-haunted by something that all col- lectors, all folklorists (and David Fowler) know: that the first text tran- ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 427–444.
Published: 01 September 1942
... of the brush about it. The club is next inflated to “a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of Paleolithic stone” (Ulysses, p. 292). The Cyclops’ herds (Odyssey, pp. 132-3) are echoed in the following passage in Joyce : And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 297–308.
Published: 01 December 1989
..., what the shepherds do to recover their sheep-in Schell’s terms, their pre- cise, albeit rustic, imitation of the “moral form of the Incarnation” (p. 12)-is a dramatic paraphrase of the Lord’s middle advent: “This third advent of Jesus in the hearts and actions of the shep- herds provides...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 296–298.
Published: 01 September 1959
... of democracy, the obsession with the practical characteristic of the new middle class, and the naive, romantic cult of nature. They were the epigoni of the romantics who had first stood up for the privilege of not being merged into the colorless herd (“among them but not of them”) 298...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 279–282.
Published: 01 September 1989
...-as a Plotinian Neoplatonist, a skeptic in the British empirical tradition, or a precursor of modern Protestant illuminism or of phenomenology (these labels appear in the text, but the critics thus tagged are herded into massive notes at the back of the book)-Hogle concludes that none of these readings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 232–236.
Published: 01 September 1955
... and Jephtha, and the Shep- herd lad” (11, 439), for throughout the World To me is not unknown what hath been done Worthy of Memorial, (11, 443-45) and by a moral wisdom (IT, 457-86) available even to a pagan. Pro- fessor Pope has noted...