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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 1942
... will be cited in the footnotes hereafter as “McK.” It gives the following dates of composition for those of Nashe’s works which concern us here: Anutomie of Absurditie, 1588 ; Marprelate tracts, 1589 Pierce Penilesse, 1590?-92; Summer‘s Last Will, Sept., 1592; Strange Newes, winter, 1592-3; Terrors...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 397–400.
Published: 01 December 1980
...George Woodcock EAGLETON MARY and PIERCE DAVID. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. 159 pp. $15.95. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 JAMES GINDIN 397 mentary rhetoric, coheres around the anonymous voice “that speaks in one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 168–183.
Published: 01 June 1949
... reviews and poor sales of Pierre were disproving his prediction that it was “very much more calculated for popularity” than any of his works since Om00.l~When Melville visited Hawthorne at Concord late in the year, Franklin Pierce, the president-elect, had recently promised Hawthorne...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 1979
... unlimited “connectedness.” From this standpoint, the enigma of V., Pierce Inverarity’s last will and testament, and the Kocket each become known as “a code with infinite reference” (p. 34). Up against these codes are two orders of observation: that of Pynchon’s characters, and then our own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 309–312.
Published: 01 December 1957
... Bishops An[d] Presbyters To Be Both One, Equal1 And The Same.. . , p. 8. . . . Geofry Chaucer the Ploughmans tale part I, 2, Pierce Plowman passus 23, Anno 1390 William Swinderby Martyr.. . . 1660. Prynne, William. A Seasonable Vindication Of The Supream...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of documentary poems. www.writing.upenn.edu/∼afilreis/88/docupoems.html (accessed March 15, 2016 ). Perloff Marjorie . 2010 . Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Pierce Chester . 1970 . “ Offensive Mechanisms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 137–138.
Published: 01 March 1941
... as a work of art it lies in this all-pervasive artistry. Beowulf seldom pierces one with a stab of eloquence straight from a heart on fire-as lesser pocil1s do, evcii Maldon: it carries one along on a great golden stream of poetic rhetoric. It is, I do not hesitate to say, the rhetoric...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 March 1941
... in this all-pervasive artistry. Beowulf seldom pierces one with a stab of eloquence straight from a heart on fire-as lesser pocil1s do, evcii Maldon: it carries one along on a great golden stream of poetic rhetoric. It is, I do not hesitate to say, the rhetoric of hliltoii and Virgil, though I...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 248–267.
Published: 01 September 1980
... that much of Juvenal’s tenth satire has for its victims. Democritus scorned his own relatively innocent culture; he would do more in the face of modern “motley life” (51): How wouldst thou shake at Britain’s modish tribe, Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., to read her poem is to replay the painful violence of a sweet melody—“blinding” sweet, piercing the eyes as well as the ears—that cannot be heard. The sublimation of this violent rupture into musical rapture is precisely what EBB was calling into question, and what Robert Browning was recalling in “Pan...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 355–363.
Published: 01 September 1947
..., Of dazzling shields and dazzling glances, Of piercing frowns and piercing lances, Of leaping brands and sweeping willows, Of dreading seas and dreaming billows, Of sunbeams which are like red wine. Of odorous lamps of argentine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (4): 352–353.
Published: 01 December 1958
... Christian morality nor amoralism is sufficient, one in which “the immeasurable gap between the laws of God and the ways of man has seldom been illustrated with such piercing irony” is disappointing. The value of his book remains in the description and analysis of Webster’s potential sources...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 110–111.
Published: 01 March 1951
... both censure, vnderstand, define What merit is: Then cast those piercing raies, Round as a crowne, in stead of honour’d bayes, About his poesie; which (he knowes) affoords Words, aboue action: matter, aboue words...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 June 1952
... to pierce the side of an already well-bled figure, the Liberal-Progressive Man (an abstraction which when it is enfleshed in the book most often turns out to be Henry Wallace). That the search for myth can. in the hands of the tactful hunter, enrich our knowledge of a work of art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 218–219.
Published: 01 June 1952
...: it explores the universal mythic patterns in Melville’s work, it discerns elements of American folklore (parvenu, provincial myth) which reside there, and it uses Melville as a lance to pierce the side of an already well-bled figure, the Liberal-Progressive Man (an abstraction which when...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 399–400.
Published: 01 December 1962
... “style, interests and attitude alike all point unmistakably to Thomas Nashe” (P. 38). Nashe’s lack of regular income and subsistence is emphasized throughout. Forced into the role of hack writer and even ghost writer, he lived to write Pierce Penilesse, which was quite successful...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 7–16.
Published: 01 March 1950
..., as it was to be in the magnificent theaters erected during the later Italian Renaissance. The general features of the classical proscenium, with scenic addi- tions, are still preserved in the Teatro Olimpico erected at Vicenza and completed in 1584. The stately proscenium is pierced by three arches-a large one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 65–67.
Published: 01 March 1947
..., Of animals; and higher still, the mind (“Autumn,” 1357-60). Akenside describes in more detail the various forms of plant life as the fourth degree. The fifth degree, which adds life’s holy flame, piercing sense and active motion, is more lovely still. In the final degree, beauty dwells most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 1987
... “The Layman’s Complaint” and “The Friar’s Answer,” Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede, the three Upland satires, and the work of Thomas Cartwright and Martin Marprelate. These materials are supported by con- siderations ofJohn Bale, John Foxe, and, in an epilogue, John Milton. The author suggests...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 1966
... of information GONZALO SOBEJAN0 357 that makes his study useful as a source for further research; his bibliography, which includes works in several languages, is most up to date. He notes his indebtedness to Menhdez y Pelayo and F. Pierce, but the knowledge he...