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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 411–412.
Published: 01 September 1949
... at Southwell: The Making of a Poet, with New Poems and Letters from the Rare Books Collections of The University of Texas. By WILLISW. PRATT.Austin, Texas, 1948. Pp. xiv 4- 145. $3.50. These publications will interest all students of Byroniana. The manuscript material in the possession...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 440–449.
Published: 01 December 1970
... for a physician; but for the diseases of the mind, svc take 110 notice of t1ieiii.I THE POET AS PHYSICIAN POPE’S EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT By U. C. KNOEPFLMACHER In his influential essay, “The Muse of Satire...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 183–186.
Published: 01 June 1972
... to in foot- notes for several decades. LIONELJ. FRIEDMAN University of Washington The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study. By A. C. SPEARING.Cambridge: At the University Press, 1970. viii 4- 24 1 pp. $7.50. The four poems in MS Cotton Nero A.x...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 June 1972
...; the essay on Pearl (the best, I believe) has an introductory section on its relation to Purity and Patience, but the chapter on Sir Gawain has no such discussion, and that poem is never placed firmly in the context of the poet’s other works. Nevertheless, this book’s virtues far outweigh its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 433–448.
Published: 01 December 1972
... AS PHILOSOPHIC POET' By F. J. LEVY A little more than a century ago, the Reverend A. 1). Grosart included Fulke Greville in one of his innumerable and invaluable series of for- gotten poets. The opportunity to revaluate the poet was not immedi- ately taken up...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 460–463.
Published: 01 December 1972
...Jonathan Wordsworth Richard J. Onorato. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. x + 435 pp. $12.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 460 REVIEWS The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in “The Prelude...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 320–322.
Published: 01 September 1975
.... In short, I finished this book wishing it had more chapters, and that, I think, is a sign of fresh and inventive scholarly writing. NINAAUERBACH University of Pennsylvania The Poet as Analyst: Essays on Paul Valtry. By JAMESK...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 260–280.
Published: 01 September 1976
...Jonathan Ramsey Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 WORDSWORTH’S SILENT POET By JONATHAN RAMSEY In the churchyard of St. Oswalds at Grasmere, a memorial tablet re- cords some of the qualities which made John Wordsworth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 293–295.
Published: 01 September 1976
...-29. The Tenth Muse: The Psyche of the American Poet. By ALBERTGELPI. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1975. xx + 327 pp. $15.00. Almost a century ago Frederick Jackson Turner concluded that American intellectual traits stemmed almost entirely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 1976
...Lawrence Willson Hyatt H. Waggoner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. xiii + 211 pp. $11.50. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 LAWRENCE WILLSON 99 Emerson as Poet. By HYATTH. WAGGONER.Princeton: Princeton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 390–391.
Published: 01 December 1976
...Donald Stone, Jr. Dorothy Gabe Coleman. Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. viii + 210 pp. $17.50. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 REVIEWS Maurice Sckve, Poet of Love: Trudition and Originality. Hy DOKO’I-HYGAW...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 398–401.
Published: 01 December 1977
... of the four hundredth anniversary of Robert Bur- ton’s birth, Fox has made a major contribution to Burton criticism. RICHARDL. NOCHIMSON Elizabeth Seton College The Art of Presence The Poet and “Paradise Lost.” By ARNOLDSTEIN. Berke- ley, Los...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 September 1978
...JUDITH SCHERER HERZ Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 MILTON AND MARVELL THE POET AS FIT READER By JUDITH SCHERERHERZ That two of the strongest, most original, and most interesting poets...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 480–482.
Published: 01 September 1942
..., and Poet. By C. T. PROUTY.New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Py. xii + 351. $3.75. Many modern students of those poets who lived “in the begin- ning of Eliza’s reign” probably still agree with Drayton that George Gascoigne was not “inspired with the brave fire...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 83.
Published: 01 March 1956
... of the literature of the period. WOLFGANGF. MICHAEL University of Texar Novolis: Germun Poet-European Thinker-Chktbn Mystic. By FREDERICK HIEBEL.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 273–309.
Published: 01 September 1940
...Walter Wadepuhl Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 HEINE AND CAMPE, POET AND PUBLISHER By WALTERWADEPUHL Although Campe was Heine’s lifelong publisher and although Hirth’s BriefwechseP contains 194 letters from Heine to Campe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 475–476.
Published: 01 December 1966
... than that in this day ot inflated books I can scarcely give. EDWARDPARTRIDGE T ti Inn e U n iversit y T/iowns Traherne, Mystic and Poet. By K. W. SALTER.New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965. v -I- 142 pp. $5.00. This is one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 491–492.
Published: 01 December 1967
.... HOWARDSTONE College of William and Mary Torquato Tasso: A Study of the Poet and of His Contribution to English Literature. By C. P. BRAND.Cambridge: At the University Press, 1965. xi + 344 pp. $9.50. The purpose of C. P. Brand’s excellent book on Tam is twofold. It pro- vides...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 263–271.
Published: 01 September 1962
...George McFadden Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 POET, NATURE, AND SOCIETY IN WALLACE STEVENS By GEORGEMCFADDEN Wallace Stevens disliked miscellany. He waited until he had found his authentic voice before publishing his first volume...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 21–30.
Published: 01 March 1963
...John T. Shawcross Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 MILTON’S DECISION TO BECOME A POET By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS A number of years ago William R. Parker noted the “legend” that “Milton’s life was preternaturally consistent : that he knew...