... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Vol. 1, The Poetry of Desire (1749-1 790). By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xx + 807 pp. $37.50. As the inventor of the historicized autobiography that sets the inner life in the context of the outer life and times, Goethe has left his...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...