...Steven Weisenburger William M. Plater The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon . Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. xvii + 268 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 88 REVIEWS sistence...

...” and intriguer-all clearly owe their inspiration to didactic models, particularly to the Jonson-Marston form of “comical1 satyre” which the author had already imitated in The Phoenix (1603-1604). Thirdly, and perhaps most important of all, the play, unlike its prede- cessor, dramatizes a theme...

... is accidentally shot with an arrow. Just before dying, he instructs the princess to burn his body and to expose his ashes in a DiPiero  Voltaire’s Parrot 353 specific way; accomplishing the task, the stunned princess witnesses the rebirth of the legendary phoenix. When she...

..., Telemachus and Collins’s Poems, each a shilling; I would be glad to have them.”l How and when Boswell acted upon this request are not recorded, but that he did is evidenced by the preservation today, in the Stephen Whitney Phoenix collection in the Columbia Uni- versity Libraries...

...., “Be absolute for death” (Measurefor Measure III.i.5 ffis turned back by Jonson on the sermonizer himself. As Overdo says, “Mine owne words turn’d vpon mee, like swords” (III.v.208). Such inversions strongly suggest parody. A second argument for parody is that in Middleton’s Phoenix (ca. 1604...

... will raise A Phoenix, in whose Flames thou shalt be blest: Wait then about this Temple a few Days, And all thy Torments shall be crown’d with Rest To the hero’s contrary interpretation, the priest Callimmachus, ex- perienced in plumbing the true meanings...

... of the allegorical Ovid in Milton’s comparison of Samson to the Phoenix, the “secular bird” of Metamorphoses, XV, 391-402, which Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem’d, And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird...

... The witty similitude depends on the “special” properties of the foreign term, the phoenix (which appears with remarkable ubiquity in Gra- cian’s illustrations of semejanza). We might reconstruct the structure of the comparison this way: John the Baptist is the Phoenix of the Saints because...

...Werner Vordtriede 374 Reviews Novalis: Hymns to the Night. Translated by MABELCOTTEHELI.. With an intro- duction and appreciation by AUGUSTCLOSS. London : Phoenix Press, 1948. Pp. 59. Novalis, since Carlyle’s essay no stranger to the English...

... in Milton’s comparison of Samson to the Phoenix, the “secular bird” of Metamorphoses, XV, 391-402, which Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem’d, And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird ages of lives...

...” against Spain. In this respect, A Came at Chess is an “interregnum” play and, as William Power has pointed out, is paralleled by Middleton’s Phoenix, the play he wrote twenty-one years earlier in celebration of James’s accession to the English throne.14 Both plays portray their respective...

..., they symbolize the perfection of masculine and feminine qualities; cf. Crashaw’s address to St. Teresa, ‘By all the Eagle in thee, all the Dove.’ See Hadrainus Junius, Emblemata , Antwerp, 1565, emblem 39” (204). However, Eggert argues that “the Phoenix ridle . . . is derived from the alchemical progression...

.... in a compilation executed at Alexandria.' This first version treats of animals which point to undoubted Egyptian origin: the phoenix and the crocodile. Professor Cook held that this first version must have been in Greek,2 but many other versions, some seemingly complete, appear in most European...

... variants of the old folk-tale motif of the disguised ruler. Among these are the following: Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1595/6), by George Chapman; Henry V (1599), by. Shakespeare; the anonymous The Weakest goeth to the Wall (1600) ; The Phoenix (1602 by Thomas Middle- ton; Law Tricks...

..., 1944. Pp. 336. $5.00. Taylor, George, and Savage, George. The Phoenix and the Dwarfs. A Play in Three Acts. New York : Macmillan Company, 1944. Pp. xxxiv + 119. $2.50. Templin, Ernest H. The Social Approach to Literature. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California...

... plays or a study of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in relation to The Phoenix and the Turtle. In brief, it is a pleasure to read and to review The Early Shakespeare. ERNESTWILLIAM TALBERT University of North Carolina The Sons of Ben: Jonsonian...

... a comparable study of the relationships between the sonnets and Shake- speare’s later plays or a study of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece in relation to The Phoenix and the Turtle. In brief, it is a pleasure to read and to review The Early Shakespeare...

... and Appreciation by August Closs. London: Phoenix Press, 1948. Pp. 60. 7/6. Oechler, William F. Motivation in the Drama of Friedrich Hebbel. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1948. Pp. viii -t 199. $2.50. ITALIAN Bergin, Thomas Goddard, and Max Harold Fisch...

... embraces traditional modes at this point; as a result, this is one of the few paragraphs in the story that seem to incite sublime feelings, and it is devoted to the sacri ce of a prototypical martyr, the captain. The protagonist remarks: I thought that my captain became a golden phoenix rising up from...

... of governmental power in a devastated country, where an emergent bureaucratic state promotes a program of rebuilding and a mawkish propaganda campaign (“the American Phoenix”) to support it. Briefly taken in by this world himself, Mark Spitz soon views its bureaucratic agenda with cynicism. The American Phoenix...