... l’ufficio naturale della poesia” (Usefulness is not the purpose of poetry, although poetry can be useful. And the poet can be or deliberately intend to be useful . . . even if usefulness is not the purpose of his poetry. . . . Poetry can be indirectly useful . . . but usefulness is not [its] natural purpose...

...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...

...Colin Jager © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Colin Jager is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is at work on a book titled Natural Designs: Romanticism and Secularism from Hume to Austen . Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Colin Jager...

... of the Natural Sign. By Murray Krieger. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvii + 292 pp. $38.00. Krieger’s book’s declared intention is to offer a straightforward critical his tory of ekphrasis, or at least the sketch of such a history, from antiquity...

..., ON : Pandora . Corson Hiram . 1889 . An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry . New York : Heath . Escher Edwin . 1920 . “ The ‘Invention’ of the Natural Method of Language Teaching .” Modern Language Journal 4 , no. 6 : 295 – 301 . Friedland Martin L...

... of Washington A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson. By MAR- GARET ANNEDOODY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. viii + 410 pp. $25.75. In this very long and seemingly exhaustive study of Richardson’s writings, Margaret Anne Doody attacks her subject...

...Rudolf D. Schier Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 NATURAL OBJECTS AND THE IMAGINATION MORIKES VIEW OF POETIC LANGUAGE By RUDOLFD. SCHIER Sie stiegen Arm in Arm uber den Graben an der StraBe und so...

... been a major one, a vade mecum for a very important dimension of Shakespeare’s art. JOHN W. VELZ University of Texas Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relation- ships between Natural Science...

... careful choices between the serials primarily concerned with archeology and/or natural history or with expository studies and those pre- vailingly composed of transcripts-in text or calendar form-of the original records. Fortunately, the plan calls for inclusion of all titles of a selected...

... emphasizes at once that the effects attained solely by natural means may baffle the uninitiated. Origen and Jerome condemn that magic which works by covenants with the devil, and approve that “which appertaineth to the practick part of naturall philosophie.” On the contrast which Jerome makes...

...Mary L. Livingston Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE NATURAL ART OF THE WZNTER’S TALE By MARYL. LIVINGSTON As several readers have recognized, the debate between Perdita and Polixenes in Act IV, scene iv, of The Winter‘s...

... handed a “Ge- samtkatalog” that will save future workers an incalculable number of hours of toil and delay. LAWRENCEM. PRICE University of California at Berkeley Natural Science in German Romanticism. By ALEXANDERGODE- VON AESCH. New York...

..., careful poetry. GARYL. LITT Moorhead State College Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Rewolution in Romantic Litera- ture. By M. H. ABRAMS.New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.550 pp. $10.00. Meyer Abrams points out several times...

...Ernest Tuveson Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SPACE, DEITY, AND THE “NATURAL SUBLIME” By ERNESTTWESON I. “Reaching Out After the Infinite” Over seventy years ago, Edward Bellamy described a great change in sensibility...

...Robert C. Elliott John Arthos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Publications in Language and Literature, Volume XXIV, 1949. Pp. xiv + 463. $6.00. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 236 Reviews The Language of Natural Description...

...), a collection of essays on early German film. Emil Jannings, Falstaff, and the Spectacle of the Body Natural Kenneth S. Calhoon To say that Emil Jannings dominated the German screen during and after the Weimar period is to allude to his imposing physical size but also to acknowledge...

... is currently working on a book-length study of Georg Büchner. Skullduggery: Goethe and Oken, Natural Philosophy and Freedom of the Press Helmut Muller-Sievers For Giza von MolnPr on his sixty-fifth birthday There seems to be a blemish on Goethe’s portrait as the benign elder...

...Linda Woodbridge Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and professor...

...Rita Felski Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp. University of Washington 2006 Rita Felski is chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia. Her most recent...

...Suvir Kaul Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 . By Beth Fowkes Tobin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi + 255 pp. University of Washington 2007 Suvir Kaul is professor of English and director of the South Asia Center...