...Frank Kermode Manard Mack and Ian Gregor. London: Methurez, 1968. xxxvi + 486 pp. $12000; 75s. Distributed in U.S.A. by Barnes & Noble. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Imagined Worlds: Essays on some English Novels and Novelists...

...Daniel DiMassa Abstract Serious fiction, according to Frank Kermode, avoids the apocalyptic paradigm of beginning, middle, and end. Part of the paradigm that escaped Kermode’s attention, however, is the inevitable defeat of evil by forces of good. The present essay inquires after the narratological...

... by a political agenda. But, as Frank Kermode reminds us, canons are complicit with power. They form the ground over which rival ideologies fight an unending battle for predominance. Witness, for instance, the recent inroads made into the traditional literary canon by feminist and Afro-American critics...

...Robert Louis Peters Frank Kermode. Romantic Image . New York: Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. ix + 171. $3.75. © 1959 University of Washington 1959 288 Reviews taking, or, to use a less secular term, he systematically made an examination of his...

.... The speaker or persona of the poem is consistently presented as one who has heroically survived the turmoil ‘“The Making of an Elegy: Yeats’s ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory MP, SLVIII (1950), 114. See also Frank Kermode, Romantic Image (New York, 1964)’ pp. 36-37, and Peter Ure, W. B. Yeats...

...David C. Fowler Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. 678 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 REVIEWS The Literary Guide to the Bible. Edited by ROBERTALTER and FRANKKERMODE...

... of “dissociated” poetry. (Kermode regrets most the symbolists’ neglect of Milton and the long poem.) If we are to maintain a vital poetry, Kermode believes, we must reappraise the symbolist aesthetic and practice; poets whose reputations have suffered must be reconsidered; and the long poem must...

... QUINLAN Romuntic Imcrge. By FRANKKERMODE. New York : Macmillan Company, 1957. Pp. ix + 171. $3.75. Frank Kermode’s book is superior literary history and criticism, and should be read by everyone interested in the literature of this century and the last. Based on original...

... which these trees and plants press on the poet are hardly “in strong contrast to those of the libertine garden,” as Frank Kermode would have it.G The suggested attitudes, if not the gifts, seem to me to have something in common with such Spenserian motifs as Clarion the butterfly in the garden...

...Leland H. Chambers Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 HENRY VAUGHAN’S ALLUSIVE TECHNIQUE BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS IN “THE NIGHT” By LELANDH. CHAMBERS Frank Kermode once suggested that “exegetical fallacies” had ob...

... it to be centrally important in a work written in praise of Elizabeth and England. Recently there has been the expected re- action: an ecclesiastical allegory in Book 1 has been constructed by Frank Kermode and John Hankins. Now at last Michael O’Connell’s book pre- sents a fresh, intelligent...

... main lines, which derive from the interpretation of the first ten books. In the flourishing literature on Paradise Lost, the recent long essay by Frank Kermode, “Adam Unparadised,”s seems in its general address most to resemble the present work of Martz. Both essays attempt within...

... his mind cankers. (IV.i.188-92) This is, unmistakably, a biological explanation, possibly even a racial one. Commenting on Prospero’s epithet, “this thing of darkness” (V.i. 275), Kermode notes: “Possibly contains an allusion to Caliban’s col- our” (p. 130). Not only is Caliban part fish...

...’ By FRANKLENTRICCHIA Both of these new studies rehearse the dominant mode of criticism on Wallace Stevens which Frank Kermode initiated with his little book of 1960, and which has been vigorously and at times contentiously elabo- rated in the work of Harold Bloom (in various essays), J. Hillis Miller...

... themes and conventions, to- gether with its range in imitating and alluding to the chief models of English, Continental, and classical literature, makes it a kind of grand summary and contemporary rebirth of the genre’s distinguished ances- try. Spenser, says Frank Kermode, “brought...

... in John Vyvyan, Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty (London: Chatto 8c Windus, 1961), pp. 77-91. and, briefly, in Frank Kermode, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays (London: Routledge 8c Kegan Paul, 1971), pp. 207-9, and Howard Nemerov, "The Marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta," KR, 18...

...: The Motifof th.e Unlived Lije. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. xvii + 283 pp. $29.95. Frane, David 0. ‘‘Festum Voluptatis”: A Study of Rknaissance Erotica. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. xiii + 275 pp. $40.00. Kermode, Frank. An AHetite fbr...

... of Learning to Curse, Frank Kermode points to another example, from the title essay, and remarks 3 See Joseph H. Smith and William Kemgan, eds., Prngnntisrn’s Freud: Thc Moral Disposition of Psyche analysis (Baltimore, Md.:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986); and Richard Rorty’s discussion...

..., absurdly alien to man, the essentialism of Santayana, according to which things are 5 Frank Kermode, Wallace Stmew (New York, 1961), p. 42, points out the connection between “dew” and the “earthly origin and destination” of man. 270 Poet, Nature, and Society in Stevens knowable...

... York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1963. 239 pp. $4.50, cloth; $1.55, paper. William Nelson. The Poetry of Edmund Spenser: A Study. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. xi + 350 pp. $6.00. 2 See, for example, Frank Kermode’s favorable review of Nelson’s book in Encounter, Vol. XXI...