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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 465–472.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Mark Edmundson Geoffrey H. Hartman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. 252 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 REVIEWS
Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars. By GEOFFREY H. HART-
UAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
... poetry, which he imagined as originating in the responsive singing of the seraphim. At a time when the divine authority of the Bible was waning, the reclassification of large swaths of prophecy as poetry helped Lowth extol the human figure of the prophet as a literary genius. Lowth idealized...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 1948
... and connected by them with prophetic vision. Isaac Husik
briefly sums up the history :
The suggestion that prophecy is a psychological phenomenon related to true
dreams is found as early as Isaac Israeli. Judah Halevi mentions it with protest.
Abraham Ibn Daud adopts it, and Maimonides gives...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 292–306.
Published: 01 September 1979
... constriction powerful; and the reader at the close
may feel as if he were buried by the logical disjecta membra of the Mil-
tonic edifice.
Joseph Wittreich’s Visionaly Poetics is an expansion of his earlier essay
on Milton and the tradition of prophecy in Milton and the Line oJ’Vzsion.
His...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 434–437.
Published: 01 December 1975
... that world, it would be
stupid and ungrateful to ignore this illumination (murky as it sometimes is)
of the centrality of prophecy to Milton’s life and art.
‘I’hat Milton must be understood as a prophet is incontestable. ‘1.0 prove it,
one can work backwards from Blake, as Komanticists...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 473–498.
Published: 01 December 2016
... poetry embodied rather than antagonized an upwardly mobile English poetic establishment. Finally, alliterative verse comes in more flavors than romance. Piers Plowman can be variously classified as a political tract, an allegorical debate, a satirical treatise, and a prophecy: it is perhaps least...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 504–506.
Published: 01 December 1970
... there is a prophecy
and fulfillment, and each group marks a different stage in Mary’s joy. The
first group presents an “initial limited joy” in the events of the Annunciation
(prophecy) and Nativity (fulfillment). Rh-y then reacts to her Child’s narra-
tion of sorrowful events from the prophecy of Simeon...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 57–65.
Published: 01 March 1964
... bore witness to Christ’s
divinity at the Epiphany, during the earthly ministry, and at the
Crucifixion.
This theme of the “witnessing elements” derives partially from
standard medieval interpretation of Psalm 18 : 1-83 as a prophecy of
Christ’s career; consequently, the reflections...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 235–242.
Published: 01 June 1942
... the Prophecies of Merlin (Book VII of
the Historia) which the scribe, a Frenchman, preferred to place
unabridged, after the narrative. Needless to say, the Prophecies
defy abbreviation; the scribe showed good taste in placing it where
he did. The Prophecies end with the slightly modified statement...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 429–439.
Published: 01 December 1985
... millenarianism (1957) with those evi-
dent in Robert E. Lerner’s recent careful analysis of the “Cedar of
Lebanon” prophecy. Cohn contemptuously describes many es-
chatological expectations as fantasies and popular movements as
the “militant and bloodthirsty pursuit of the Millennium.”s Lerner...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 344–345.
Published: 01 December 1957
.... This selection gives
some equally valuable hints on how to diagnose the pest.
The fourth text, that of Martin Pollich’s prophecy for 1490, predicts that
year’s weather, harvest, famines, catastrophes, wars, etc., from astrological data.
Later in his life, Pollich tried to combat such belief...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 345–346.
Published: 01 December 1957
...:
if they blend, he will live; if they separate, he will die. This selection gives
some equally valuable hints on how to diagnose the pest.
The fourth text, that of Martin Pollich’s prophecy for 1490, predicts that
year’s weather, harvest, famines, catastrophes, wars, etc., from astrological...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Lucretius but have sought to explain the distinctive form of a way of thinking—an epistemological style that traveled promiscuously beyond the boundaries of philosophy and science. As the mind’s making of disaster, catastrophizing may be conceived as a form of insight or prophecy, a state of inspiration...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 234–237.
Published: 01 June 1971
... to prefer the triumphs of the minimal. This preference is based on
honorable principles. Vendler knows how willing we are to revel sentimen•
tally in the consolations of affirmative rhetoric. She knows how readily
Utopia can become Arcadia, prophecy degenerate into nostalgia. Imagina•
tion, finding...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 September 1984
... drama apocalypse sounds ironically and “loudly in and
through . . . false prophecy and [is] antiphonally played out in [allusions
to] Milton” that contrast true and false glory (p. 109). Like “King Edward the
Third,” “A War Song to Englishmen” is an apocalyptic “prophecy echoing
[with bitter...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 29–40.
Published: 01 March 1962
...: “Until the
wanton days of Jove, / The simple world was all compos’d of
It was earlier mentioned that the secular poem, certainly as handled
by Prior, and probably as handled by Horace, had provided Dryden
with authority for prophesying a new golden age. Such prophecies
were, of course...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 326–328.
Published: 01 September 1971
...~rrI I~ItIkS
Thought. By MORTOND. PALEY.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1970.
x -I- 272 pp. $9.00.
‘l’his is ii good book. Rejecting the pi-evalent theory that Blake’s system is
relatively consistent and progressively fleshed out from the early lyrics to the
prophecies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 184–191.
Published: 01 June 1981
..., clas-
sical patterns and Christian ones, epic along with prophecy, with those
mergers themselves producing “a theatrical epic constructed from a se-
ries of scenes that . . . have a recognizable structural unity of their own
and compose one exceptional visionary sacra rappresentazione” (p. xvi...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 331–339.
Published: 01 September 1969
... with the bold use of the present tense, shifts these
clauses from the department of hypothesis into that of prophecy. Tact
is maintained only if the words are supposed to be those of the young
man.
Two rhetorical questions, apparently parallel, make up the second
quatrain. Though interrogative...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 129–174.
Published: 01 June 1940
.... of Calif.
Pub. in English, 111, vii (1939), 237-284.
816. Brugger, E. “Kritische Bemerkungen zu Lucy Allen Pat-
on’s Ausgabe der Prophecies Merlin des Maistre Richart d’Irlande :
Fortsetzung und Schluss.” ZFSL, LX ( 1936), 213-223.
1826. “Die Komposition der Prophecies Merlin des...
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