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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 27–53.
Published: 01 March 2021
...James Kuzner Abstract This essay dwells on George Herbert’s “The Flower” and on how its speaker can love and praise God. Writing of praise and doubt, Stanley Cavell remarks that the problem of skepticism is partly a problem of finding an object that one can praise, a search that certainly occurs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 317–322.
Published: 01 September 1974
...Arnold Stein Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. ix + 386 pp. $16.50. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 REVIEWS
Donne’s “Anniversaries” and lhe Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Sym-
bolic Mode...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 477–478.
Published: 01 September 1942
... 477
The Praise of Folly. By DESIDERIUSERASMUS. Translated from the
the Latin with an Essay and Commentary, by HOYTHOPEWELL
HUDSON.Princeton, New Jersey : The Princeton University
Press, 1941. Pp. 166. $2.50.
The commonly reprinted translations of Erasmus’ Praise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 1970
...Kathryn Montgomery Harris Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 “OCCASIONS SO FEW”
SATIRE AS A STRATEGY OF PRAISE
IN SWIFT’S EARLY ODES
By KATHRYNMONTGOMERY HARRIS
The recent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 107–123.
Published: 01 June 1987
...Paul Yachnin Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 A GAME AT CHESS
THOMAS MIDDLETON’S
“PRAISE OF FOLLY”
By PAULYACHNIN
Thomas Middleton’s Game at Chess might have been a play...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 124–144.
Published: 01 June 1987
...Everett Zimmerman Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 SWIFT’S SCATOLOGICAL POETRY
A PRAISE OF FOLLY
By EVERETTZIMMERMAN
Pope defends his scatology by asserting that he, like “Virgzl in his
Georgzcs...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the methodological impasses of contemporary literary studies. Epideixis, a basic mode of pointing or linguistic ostension, confers value, often by way of praise or blame, without trying to persuade its audience with the practical immediacy of political or forensic rhetoric. Drawing on the ordinary language...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Simon Park Abstract Readers of Diogo Bernardes’s (ca. 1530–ca. 1595) poetry have long praised the brandura (gentleness) of his work. But what brandura meant and how favorably it was viewed depended on context. Brandura was associated with the middle style, with mastery of elocutio...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1981
... was used for settings of the Psalms,
the scriptural model of the The Temple-to represent the interplay be-
tween divine and human voices.
Herbert introduces an allusion to part-music in “The Altar,” the first
lyric of The Temple, as he describes his poetic goal-to praise God-and
the manner...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 157–160.
Published: 01 June 1943
... appeared, he had lifted himself from obscur-
ity to fame. While so doing he attacked de Pure, Boursault, and
Quinault, but not Boyer or de Vise; he made special mention of Cor-
neille’s Attila, but not of his Swtorius; he praised Alexudre, but
not Andromaque. Why he made these selections may...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 395–403.
Published: 01 December 1982
.... $35.00.
RICHARDS. PEIERSON.Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 198 1. xxii + 247 pp. $18.50.
Selected Essays, new ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950), p. 128.
395
396...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 341–344.
Published: 01 September 1945
... is interesting enough
for its own sake, if we believe the high praise which Opitz bestows
SLaudatio Funebris, / Memoriae ac honori / serenissimi principis / Ulde-
rici / potentiss. Dan. Regis F. / Haredis Norvagia, summi Copiarum Eques-
trium / Saxonicarum Prafecti, Duarum Legionum / Ducis...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 158–167.
Published: 01 June 1949
... review as very
favorable to Word~worth.~It is indeed a skillful blending ot’ negative
criticism and high praise. For example, Hazlitt notes that \Vordsworth
has an “intense intellectual egotism’’ which “swallows up every
thing” ; that “the evident scope and tendency of Mr...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 279–311.
Published: 01 September 1998
... between their self-assessment and modern criti-
cism, the poets characterize themselves as unfit to praise Gustavus
because they excel in poetry of a light, witty, and lyrical vein, much as
Graham Parry characterizes the Caroline court poets as figures of
“modest stature whose “achievements...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 247–275.
Published: 01 September 1995
...-poet’s works. The reasons for its lack
of popularity are easy to discern. Instead of praising the virtue of
“clannesse,” the poet chooses to accentuate the negative by denigrat-
ing the corresponding vice, “fylpe of pe flesch,” which he illustrates
with three biblical exempla that modern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 411–413.
Published: 01 December 1978
... they went to the printer. The casual
reader finds little besides bland generalities and fulsome praise in these
pieces, but the careful and informed reader, as McFadden shows, will find
much more. Properly understood, the bland generalities become reflections
on important specific events...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 234–259.
Published: 01 September 1976
...
subject of such praise is the Virgin Mary or someone like her: Astraea,
Elizabeth I, Wisdom, or “virtue, or goodness, or divinity . . . incarnate
in the individual praised . . . [an] image of God.”2
Donne’s verse letters to the Countess of Bedford and other noble-
women are among...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 June 1962
...
formula is from Quintilian : “It is permissible to censure with counterfeited
praise and praise under a pretense of blame.” Finally, some dictionaries extend
irony’s meaning to any kind of mock or scoff; and Renaissance rhetorics
classify irony as a trope and sometimes as a figure, as when...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 99–124.
Published: 01 June 1989
...,” Italianistica, 9 (1980): 400; and Victoria Kahn, “Reduction and the
Praise of Disunion in Machiavelli’s Discourses,” JMRS, 18 (1988): 14.
2 Politics and Remembrance: Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville,(Prince-
ton: Princeton University Press, 1985); see particularly discussions...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 246–256.
Published: 01 September 1974
... the topics he did and, perhaps more
important, why did he omit others? A brief outline of the eulogy will
clarify its content:
307-70: general praise of Swift
37 1-90: survey of the political situation in 17 13-14
39 1-406: Swift’s exile and oppression in Ireland
407-30...