...Jane K. Brown Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285 Reviews Practicing...

...Susan Manning The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s . By Robert Crawford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vi + 296 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama...

...J. C. Lapp Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 AN EXPLORER-POET : JEAN PARMENTIER By J. C. LAPP As a seaman and explorer, who was also a poet, Jean Parmentier stands unique among the literary figures of the French Renaissance...

... it comes to the question of Homer and Virgil. Fundamentally, though, both Arnold and Eliot reach toward a transcendental, even religious, view of the classic. The essay concludes by developing the implications of Eliot's “last poet” and the silencing qualities of the classic hinted at in his address...

... in Henry V” and “Law/Form/History: Shakespeare's Verdict in All Is True” appeared in the September 2000 and March 2002 issues of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity . By Gordon Teskey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. vi + 214...

... eighteenth century. ALAN D. MCKILLOP The Rice Institute The Mind of a Poet. A Study of Wordsworth‘s Thought with Par- ticular Ref crence to “The Prelude.” By RAYMOND DEXTER HAVENS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xviii + 670...

...C. David Benson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 CRITIC AND POET: WHAT LYDGATE AND HENRYSON DID TO CHAUCER’S TROILUS RND CRISEYDE By C. DAVID BENSON Although Chaucer’s Troilus and Cristyde is cited...

...Wallace Cable Brown Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 JOHNSON AS POET By WALLACECABLE BROWN Samuel Johnson the poet is familiar to students of literature as the author of one poem; but even “Th,e Vanity of Human Wishes...

... that the history and character of America itself is visibly embedded in the broad texture of its language. CARROLLE. REED University of Zt’asltington Adam Mickiewicz: Poet of Poland. A Symposium by MANFREDKIUDL. With a Foreword...

.... 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...

...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...

...-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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

... talks of the poet’s “own casual abilit\p to eclipse . . . with a wink” the “harsh gaie of intrusive busybodies” (p. 124), as if the persona in the Sorigs ccd Sorzricts is equatable, tout court, with the author. Moreover, in such poems as the “The (~ood-~iiotr-oeclipsing is a bit of’ wishful...

... 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...

... 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...