...-Text and Its Poet. By E. TALBOTDONALDSON. New Haven: Yale University Studies in English, Vol. 113; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1949. Pp. xii + 257. $5.00. The purpose of this able and conscientious book is “chiefly to demonstrate the probability that the...

...John W. Clark Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 ON CERTAIN “ALLITERATIVE” AND “POETIC” WORDS IN THE POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO “THE GAWAIN-POET” By JOHN W. CLARK Attempts to prove the common authorship of the four poems in MS Cotton Nero A. x, and...

...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. By...

... 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...

...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...

... 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. These...

...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...

...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 a...

... (Madison, 1975), pp. 13-29. 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...

...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...

... the occasion 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...

...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 of the...

... Courtier, Soldier, 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...

...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...

... University 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...

...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 and...

... 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...

.... Pp. 60. Byron 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...

...E. H. Eby Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 DID WHITMAN WRITE THE GOOD GRAY POET? By E. H. EBY It is generally accepted that William Douglas O’Connor wrote The Good Gray Poet. The book is dated September 2, 1865, signed by O’Connor...