...Donald Cornu Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 DR. JOHNSON AT FORT AUGUSTUS: CAPTAIN LEWIS OURRY By DONALDCORNU For a century and a half-from 1785 to 1936-one of Johnson’s entertaining breakfast companions...

... University of Maryland Lemi ad Clark: Linguistic Pioneers. By E. H. CRISWEU. Co- lumbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Studies, vol. XV, no. 2, 1940. Pp, ccxii + 102. $1.25. The body of this book is made up of a “Lewis and Clark Lexicon.” More precisely, we have here a list...

... absorbing book. RICHARDD. ALTICK Ohio State University Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. By KATHLEEN BLAKE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. 216 pp. $8.75. With the clear-minded...

...Michael Levenson Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 FORM’S BODY WYNDHAM LEWIS’S TARR By MICHAELLEVENSON A man, an artist, let us call him T, realizes that his flirtation with B has gone too...

...Stephen E. Lewis © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-03Lewis.cs 11/13/00 2:07 PM Page 617 Love and Politics in Wyndham Lewis’s Snooty Baronet Stephen E. Lewis e tend to think of Wyndham Lewis...

... in Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and T. S. Eliot. By CHARLESMOORMAN. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Perspectives in Criticism No. 5, 1960. Pp. ix + 163. $3.50. Charles Moorman’s study is a recognition not only of revolutionary trends in modern Arthurian...

...Helen Batchelor Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 ∗ The maps and the page from the “Babbitt Notebook” included in this article are copyrighted by the Estate of Sinclair Lewis and Melville H. Cane, Executor. A SINCLAIR LEWIS PORTFOLIO...

... developments with a wary eye, a young C. S. Lewis was increasingly skeptical of both the “extinction panic” that gripped his contemporaries and the utilitarian and environmentally exploitative imagination of planetary conquest they championed. In response Lewis penned Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel...

...R. W. B. Lewis Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE EMERSON CAUSE‘ By R. W. B. LEWIS “Emerson,” writes Jonathan Bishop at the start of his excellent study, “is still our good old cause,” and the head and fount of what...

...Jesse Molesworth The manipulation of local time, or clock time, constitutes a vital aspect of gothic storytelling, as seen in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto , Matthew Lewis’s Monk , and Ann Radcliffe’s novels. Several concepts emerge: the importance of the hour as a temporal unit...

...Mark Goble [email protected] Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism . By Cara L. Lewis . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xi + 314 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Modernism has always had a strange relationship to formalism...

... said he had paid three guineas to get it hastened, that some time after he acquainted her that he had procured the Report of the Lords Comm :rs of the Admiralty, that the deponent asked him if it would not be proper to give some gratuity to [Z] Mr Lewis* for his trouble & in order...

... in Greek, Turkish, Japanese, and Chinese ; to these may now be added two additional English versions, and one Italian), I propose to examine four: those of Jorge Guillkn, Renato Poggioli, Cecil Day Lewis, and Rainer Maria Ri1ke.l Voltaire has stated that poetry is a matter of details...

... unchanged. To the clergyman-novelist, Scott was always a great and kind man of letters; to Scott, Maturin was a highly talented, though wayward, man of genius. Matthew Gregory Lewis, in his childhood, boyhood, and youth, had excellent training in the type of sensationalism for which...

... Nonsense in French Literature England with the writings of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, and that it is a peculiarly English (or rather Anglo-American) type of humor, unknown in foreign literatures and especially in French litera- ture. Thus Edmund Wilson has said: “We also have...

... encouraged in the formulation of this response by the appearance of Anthony Lewis’s Make No Law, a history of the civil libel case of New Yorfi Times v. Sulli- van, which was successfully appealed before the Supreme Court in 1963.5 This work, part legal history, part political persuasion, and part...

... to get at Das Kapital by listening to a Communist’s version of Molotov’s version of Lenin’s version of Marx. Waldock has written one of these books; he disagrees with Green- law, Tillyard, Lewis, et d.,and gives us the doctrine that Milton wanted to do one thing but usually did something...

.... F. GUNN.Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1952, Pp. 592. $5.25. For fifteen years the most intelligent discussion of the Romance of the Rose has seemed to be that of C. S. Lewis (Oxford, 1936). Although only a chapter in a larger study, Lewis’ treatment has had the added charm of being...

... influential book on rule and courtliness in the age. First of all, we must point out that Castiglione did not limit his search for courtly models to his own time, but began with ancient figures of what he called courtliness. When Count Lewis of Canossa begins the first discourse...

... accomplished in Troilus and Criseyde, even if he was incapable of equaling it in his own verse. In a brilliant essay that still remains influential today, C. S. Lewis (one modern critic who could write good Middle English poetry) identified four elements in Troilus that Chaucer had added to his...