...Lodwick Hartley Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 COWPER AND THE POLYGAMOUS PARSON By LODWICKHARTLEY One of the most recent critical treatments of William Cowper con- tains the following statement : “When Cowper turned to poetry after...

...Coleman O. Parsons Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 SCOTT’S FELLOW DEMONOLOGISTS By COLEMAN0. PARSONS When Mrs. -began to hear voices and to see cats, dogs, spectres of dead or living relatives and friends, as well as carriages...

...Coleman O. Parsons Joan Bennett. Cambridge: At the University Press; New York: Macmillan Company, 1948. Pp. xvi + 203. $3.00. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Kenneth Neil1 Cameron 505 nition. One of the most rewarding chapters...

...Thornton H. Parsons Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 RANSOM AND THE POETICS OF MONASTIC ECSTASY By THORNTONH. PARSONS It seems inappropriate and misleading to speak of Ransom’s love poems...

...Rodney Delasanta Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE THEME OF JUDGMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES By RODNEYDELASANTA Despite some recent animadversions on the architectonic function of the Parson’s...

..., in addition to having a standard, apply it to the others also. A standard adequate for such application is available. It is that of Church doctrine presented in the Parson’s Tale, the orthodoxy of which is well attested.” There is no fit ground for holding Chaucer unorthodox in his moral views...

... to The Canterbury Tales, but Chaucer does not apply that term to him. Instead, Chaucer uses it to describe two other characters (one of the best and one of the worst), namely, the Parson and the Friar. Virtuous has moral and amoral meanings which are different and yet related. Its amoral mean- ing...

... to The Infanta of London, Heire to an India (Line 58) which is particularly meaningful since th,e Jesuit Parsons had, in his tract, A Conference about the next succession to the Crown of Eng- land (1594), defended the claim of the Infanta of Spain to the English throne...

... pages. 2 The Prologue is obvious. For the Parson’s Prologue, see the statement, “Now lakketh us no tales mo than oon.” Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F. N. Robinson (Cambridge, Mass., 1957), X(1).16. Subsequent references will be to this edition and will be cited in the text...

... are falsified, as when Mr. B. “fakes” a short letter to be sent to Pamela’s parents; they are misdirected, as when Pamela reads a letter intended for Mrs. Jewkes; one letter is anonymous, warning Pamela that Mr. B. intends to trap her by the device of a mock-marriage to Parson Williams, who is himself...

... the police; he visited places where a man of God should not have been seen. He did all these things and more-and he wrote some of the most fascinating and moving poetry and short stories in the Danish language. His best known story is “The Parson at Vejlbye.” Its very atmos- phere...

... conster- nation, he finds that Eastgate takes him at his word and calls at his place to take him out to the fields for the promised duel. “In their progress up the hill, Prankley often eyed the parson, in hopes of per- ceiving some reluctance in his countenance; but as no such marks...

.... Perry for EETS (London, 1867), P. 5. Sister Mary Im.maculate 65 IV. “SHEIS THE LYFOF ANGELES” A passage in the Parson’s Tale which treats of a woman living in virginity, contains the curious sentence, “Thanne is she spouse to Jhesu Crist...

...: the former can exceed (or fail to live up to) the latter. Through the character of the Parson, Chaucer put the idea, but not the practice, of alliterative meter to work. Internal views of the alliterative tradition, from the perspective of a practicing poet, a scribe, or a well-versed reader, must have...

...), the fancy from natural history adds a significant effect. Woman is not merely like a scorpion; the scorpion is physically like a woman.9 That Chaucer was acquainted with the scorpion as a symbol for lechery is shown by The Parson’s Tale: And therfore seith Salomon...

...- tieth-century philosophy and politics as alarming as it is incomprehensible. Finally, there is the problem of such dismissals as the following: “For [Donald] Howard the closing sentence of the Parson’s Tale . . . ‘directs us to look back upon tales and groups of tales, to perform our own...

... or the Parson’s Tale. But the Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a candidate for the prize supper, whereas the Monk’s Tale is not, and the Parson’s Tale-significant by position as the last tale-has special truth claims that arise in few or perhaps no other tales. A definition of “pluralism” in relation...

... of Parson Adams may be distinguished from that of Parson Trulliber, the prudence of Sophia Western from that of Mrs. Fitz- pa trick. In Chapter V, Hatfield offers an interpretation-for the most part cogent and based on some rigorous historical scholarship-of how irony and dra- matic action...

... that Hawthorne, unlike most of those fellow romancers (who were generally Whigs and therefore believers in the Myth of Progress), opted for the Myth of Decline. Richard Digby, Parson Hooper, Young Goodman Brown-not to mention Arthur Dimmesdale, whose youth is emphasized in contrast to the benign...

... a man of God should not have been seen. He did all these things and more-and he wrote some of the most fascinating and moving poetry and short stories in the Danish language. His best known story is “The Parson at Vejlbye.” Its very atmos- phere and tragic inevitability make it symbolic...