... for their kind, daily assistance and singular expertise. THE PROBLEM OF BIOGRAPHICAL MASTERING: THE CASE FOR BOSWELL AS SUBJECT* B’ PHILIPE. BARUTH After Boswell had been heaped with scorn for two centuries, Fred- erick A. Pottle finally...

...Richard D. Altick A. Pottle Frederick. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, 1982. xiv + 290 pp. $21.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS Pride mil Negligence: The Histmy...

...Sophus Keith Winther Frederick A. Pottle. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 139. $2.00. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Sophus Keith Wirtther 123 The Idiom of Poetry. By FREDERICK A. POTTLE. Ithaca, N. Y...

... different RICHARD D. ALTICK 209 inside angles, in a pair of absorbing books, David Buchanan’s Treasure of Auchinleck (1974) and Frederick A. Pottle’s Pride and Negligence (1982). The great bulk of the Boswell papers came to rest in the Yale Boswell...

... or conversing with Samuel Johnson. Boswell’s usual practice was Aosufell’\ 1,oridorz Journal, 1762-1763, ed. Freclei ick A. Pottle (New Yolk, 1950), p. 39; all quotation4 from the hiidon Jozirrial ale from this edition. 2 “Borwell’s I3o>well,”Johnson .Igoni\ter arid Other Iayc (Canibi itlge, 1<146...

... of Monmouth and the Late Latin Chroniclers, 1300- 1500. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Publications in English, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1946. Pp. xiii + 152. $1.75. Pottle, Frederick A. The Idiom of Poetry. Revised edition, with other essays. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University...

.... Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1951. Pp. xii + 81. $1.75. Dunklin, Gilbert T. (editor). Wordsworth. Centenary Studies Presented at Cornell and Princeton Universities. By Douglas Bush, Frederick A. Pottle, Earl Leslie Griggs, John Crowe Ransom, B. Ifor Evans, Lionel Trilling...

.... A. Pottle has an ingenious study of “The Power of Memory in Boswell and Scott in which, without violation of his own deep admiration for both men, he puts his finger on a psychological difference which, he suggests, marks also a differ- ence in mental habits between the eighteenth and nineteenth...

... of following up King Lear with a Thomas and Sally and tailing off with a “Dance called ‘Blindman’s Buff.’ ” Evidently there has taken place what Professor Pottle calls a “shift in sensibility.” The only comment the diarist permits himself to tiiake on the theater is his statement that The Rivals...

... the utter something or other of following up King Lear with a Thomas and Sally and tailing off with a “Dance called ‘Blindman’s Buff.’ ” Evidently there has taken place what Professor Pottle calls a “shift in sensibility.” The only comment the diarist permits himself to tiiake on the theater...

... there 318 KEVlEWS be, is R. W. Chapman, whose ambiguous role in “Operation Hush” is de- scribed with exemplary tact. On the whole, Lady Joyce Talbot de Malahide, except for Professor Pottle the last survivor of the original protagonists...

.... Geoffrey Scott and Professor Pottle (as who is not Mr. Stauffer, however, does not repeat their findings ; but, keeping his own ends clearly before him, he makes his own contribution to our understanding of Boswell’s art and of the place his work holds in the province of biography...

...L. J. Swingle Engell James. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1981. xx + 416 pp. $16.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 L. J. SWINGLE 89 and (as Pottle suggests) by his obsequious attendance...

...- scribed with exemplary tact. On the whole, Lady Joyce Talbot de Malahide, except for Professor Pottle the last survivor of the original protagonists, emerges with great credit. Bent upon protecting the interests of her husband, who is but a shadowy offstage presence throughout the transactions, she...

.... Marchwardt, Albert H. Introduction to the English Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. v + 347. $2.15. Pottle, Frederick A. The Idiom of Poetry. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1941. PI>.vii + 139. $2.00. Studies in the Comic. Berkeley : LTniversity of California...

..., 1981. viii + 139 pp. $18.75, cloth; $7.75, paper. Pottle, Frederick A. Przdr und Nrgligente: The Hirto? of the Bohwell Pupen. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, 1982. xiv + 290 pp. $2 1.00. Seelig, Sharon Cadman. The Shadow...

... it “IV.” 9 Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Pottle and Bennett (Lon- don, 1936), p. 233. 10Life, IV, 17; the date of this statement is uncertain. 11 “Winter,” lines 555-56. 438 Johitson’s Copy of Hammods Elegics Elegy [wrote Chesterfield in the preface...

... of Geoffrey Scott and F. A. Pottle, when Boswell was widely considered an inspired idiot transcribing scintillating conversations. The rationale for Schwartz’s book rests on his belief that most modern read- ers use the Lzfe not only “as an entrde into Johnson’s thought and personal- ity...

... at Fort Augustus in Scotland has been recorded as a Captain “Urie” who had “served in America.” Professors Pottle and Bennett in their noteworthy edition of Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.’ (printed for the first time from the original manuscript...

.... FESTSCHRIFTEN Hilles, Frederick W., and Harold Bloom (editors). From Sensibility to Roman- ticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. vi + 585 pp. $9.75. Maynard Mack, “A Poet in His Landscape: Pope at Twickenham”; Donald J. Greene...