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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... place in British travel and landscape writing, its rise was contested by Welsh and working-class writers like the antiquarian poet Richard Llwyd (1752–1835). By conspicuously failing to impose picturesque features on a carefully historicized landscape, Llwyd’s poem Beaumaris Bay (1800) lays bare...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 263–294.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., in
fact that suffusion of Imlay’s is derived from “the rosy tint of morning,
that is, from the benevolent landscape pervaded by the warbling voice
of Fanny Blood. Thus, while Wollstonecraft explicitly writes about her
daughter’s function in recovering part of the lost Imlay, her prose
implies...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 22–33.
Published: 01 March 1964
... interest in rugged
scenery was the landscape painting of the seventeenth century, to which
travelers came (though somewhat later) to refer their observations. By
1756 the vale of Keswick was said to require for its full delineation the
12 Haller, pp. 212, 216.
1s The development in English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 1982
... in
the Kevolution books becomes the ground for a “travel poem” with
roots in topographical tradition.9 Cities, people, and events form a
land, and often a visualized “landscape,” through which the young
Wordsworth “tours” in quest of sights. Wordsworth shows himself as
a “sauntering traveller...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2007
... does poetic travel always
outstrip travel by other genres and discourses. To the extent that poetry
is what is lost in translation, travel writing, fiction, music, cinema, and
the visual arts may travel more easily across cultural boundaries. Poetry
is stitched and hitched to the peculiarities...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 March 1960
... major English
and French work on gardening together with the descriptions of
gardens and landscapes in countless books of travel. Although the
aesthetic values expressed in the major work remain essentially the
same throughout, he expanded its scope with each new volume,
striving to survey...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 367–380.
Published: 01 December 1977
...CARL S. SMITH Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 ∗ Several colleagues and friends were very helpful in the preparation of this essay, particularly Professor Charles Feidelson, Christopher Herbert, and Jane S. Smith. JAMES’S TRAVELS, TRAVEL WRITINGS...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 42–58.
Published: 01 March 1987
...Linda M. Austin Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 ’Tis but to prove limitation, and measure a
cord, that we travel;
Let who would ‘scape and be free go to his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 305–327.
Published: 01 September 1995
... that, “with the exception of
the passage from Thomas Burnet just alluded to, there is not, I believe,
a single English traveller whose published writings would disprove the
314 MLQ I September 1995
assertion, that, where precipitous rocks and mountains are mentioned...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 418–421.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privilege. Vauquelin’s lyrical travels through
France revive the pastoral mode. His landscapes become areas of perplexity
and doubt about poetry, authority, and mortality at a time when nature is
seen to be at war with itself. Peletier, a polymath, looked at the landscape
through the lenses...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 413–418.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privilege. Vauquelin’s lyrical travels through
France revive the pastoral mode. His landscapes become areas of perplexity
and doubt about poetry, authority, and mortality at a time when nature is
seen to be at war with itself. Peletier, a polymath, looked at the landscape
through the lenses...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 422–425.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privilege. Vauquelin’s lyrical travels through
France revive the pastoral mode. His landscapes become areas of perplexity
and doubt about poetry, authority, and mortality at a time when nature is
seen to be at war with itself. Peletier, a polymath, looked at the landscape
through the lenses...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 425–429.
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the writings of
Thomas More, Michel de Montaigne, and other canonical sixteenth-century
figures who drew on Lucretius, Greenblatt works in the same mode as inWill
in the World, reconstructing out of deeply learned speculation the moments
and figures lost to documentary history. Where in his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 429–432.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
strongly political poets invent redemptive spaces where new modes of land-
ownership alter aristocratic privilege. Vauquelin’s lyrical travels through
France revive the pastoral mode. His landscapes become areas of perplexity
and doubt about poetry, authority, and mortality at a time when nature...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 433–436.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
strongly political poets invent redemptive spaces where new modes of land-
ownership alter aristocratic privilege. Vauquelin’s lyrical travels through
France revive the pastoral mode. His landscapes become areas of perplexity
and doubt about poetry, authority, and mortality at a time when nature...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 436–439.
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the writings of
Thomas More, Michel de Montaigne, and other canonical sixteenth-century
figures who drew on Lucretius, Greenblatt works in the same mode as inWill
in the World, reconstructing out of deeply learned speculation the moments
and figures lost to documentary history. Where in his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 149–168.
Published: 01 June 1994
...’] to his satisfaction”misses the point (C. Sankey,
ed., Goldsmith’s “Traveller”and “TheDes&d Vilhge” [London: Rivingtons, 18741,note
to line 57 of The Deserted Village Though Goldsmith was not after historical
specificity in his description of the Auburn of old, passages in his other writings sug...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 287–310.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Emerson The term genius is everywhere in nineteenth-century Anglophone writing—not only in literature and literary criticism but also in biography and autobiography, periodical and newspaper articles, travel writing and guidebooks, political discourse, aesthetic criticism, history, and philosophy...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 376–389.
Published: 01 December 1975
... an ‘‘emergent idiom” in An Evening Un-
doubtedly, Wordsworth found initial encouragement in the contempo-
rary landscape witers and, as his footnotes acknowledge, borrowed
from their poems and travel guides; however, the compressed and diffi-
cult texture of images is his own arid not theirs...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 213–216.
Published: 01 June 1979
.... The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in EnglGh Po-
etry, 1630-1660. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. xiii +
237 pp. $14.50.
Webber, Joan Malory. Milton and His Epic Tradition. Seattle and London: Uni-
versity-of Washington Press, 1979. xiv + 244 pp. $15.00...
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