...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... expand the book‘s horizon; since Hugo von Hof- mannsthal wrote them during the period 1914-1918, Coghlan’s careful discussion illuminates the poet’s thinking during the crucial war years which influenced much of his later writing, thus adding the depth of intellectual background to his study...

...J. L. Simmons Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE PLACE OF THE POET IN CHAUCER’S HOUSE OF FAME By J. L. SIMMONS It has long been out of fashion to urge an autobiographical signifi- cance...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...; 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...

... 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...

...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...

...MARVIN GLASSER Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 THE POET AND THE ROYAL PERSONA LYRICAL STRUCTURES IN SHAKESPEARE’S SECOND TETRALOGY By MARVINGLASSER In addition to its historical and political...

...Mary Ann Gillies Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THOMAS HARDY MODERNIST POET By MARY ANN GILLIES In 1972 Donald Davie claimed that “in British poetry of the last fifty years (as not in American) the most...