... on the solid foundation of Henry Jnmes and the Expanding Horizon. JOSEPH B. HARRISON University of Waslziitgton Rage for Order: Essays in Criticism. By AUSTIN~VARREN. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1948. Pp. vii + 161. $3.00. Professor Warren’s...

...Gaylord C. LeRoy Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 JOHN RUSKIN: AN INTERPRETATION OF HIS “DAILY MADDEN I NG RAGE” By GAYLORDC. LEROY During the latter part of his life Ruskin was constantly afflicted with the sense...

... Carthage as a slave shortly before that city's destruction. Using as a lens a small body of artifacts called curse tablets, I consider how victims of Rome buried their rage, swallowed their history, to erase their former lives. But the erasure was never complete, and the burying of curses invites the agile...

... as a contrarian impulse, a radically different way of thinking about the canon that has become second nature. Keywords biography, memoir, D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer T he UK edition of Geoff Dyer s (1997) memoir, Out of Sheer Rage, is subtitled In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence. The American edition is subtitled...

...: Do not go gentle into that good night, A1 Old age should burn and rave at close of day; b Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A2 Though wise men at their end know dark is right, a Because their words had forked no lightning they b Do not go...

... they inspired them with a more cool and deliberate courage, whereas trumpets and other martial music incited and inflamed them more to rage. See Aulus Gellius, lib. i, cap. 11 and Thucyd. lib. 5. [Newton] (Poetical Works of John Milton, ed. Edward Hawkins et al.) Milton’s...

... & Unwin, 1974), pp. 366-71. 8 ENGLISH CYCLE PLAYS Let us take the example of Herod. It is a commonplace that Herod, any Herod, rages in the scaffold and the street and is, therefore, largely a figure of Ira; yet the Herods in the Passion sequences...

... as follows : Such rage as winters, reigneth in my heart, My life bloud friesing with vnkindly cold: Such stormy stoures do breede my baleful1 smart. Violent emotionat tumult, storm or paroxysm. T.M. 597. Of Polyhymnia’s lament: Eftsoones such store...

... of pathos. By segregating this destructive potential from Lady Dedlock’s feminine sexuality, Dickens can avoid various unsettling aes- thetic and moral dilemmas, but the cost of his decision is that Hortense becomes a creature of unmotivated malignancy. Her rage may be fed by jealousy...

...- cism” (Criticism in the Wilderness, p. 4).1 The temptation for a reviewer to take a firm stand on a polemical piece and to engage interestingly with it depends on the author’s ability to pro- voke either enthusiasm or rage. In the first instance the reviewer can carry the author’s argument...

... hopes will result in “an unservile, an enlarged and mature, criti- cism” (Criticism in the Wilderness, p. 4).1 The temptation for a reviewer to take a firm stand on a polemical piece and to engage interestingly with it depends on the author’s ability to pro- voke either enthusiasm or rage...

... to the Dead, When all are of their Sovereign sence depriv’d, And Honour which my rage should warm is fled. 2. Dead to Heroick Song this Isle appears, The ancient Musick of Victorious Verse : They tast no more, than he his Dirges hears, Whose useless Mourners...

... Aubigny: “It is a poem, that, if I well remember, in your lordship’s sight suffered no less violence from our people here, than the subject of it did from the rage of the people of Rome. . . .” But he has managed all the same, as he says, to reach “the love of good men” among the small group...

...” How happy he, who free from care, The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breaths his native air, In his ow11 grounds. In 1727 Pope introduced some alterations: Happy the hIan, who free from Care, The Business...

... at Milton’s name,” Johnson says : Immortal Patrons of succeeding Days, Attend this Prelude of perpetual Praise ! Let Wit, condemn’d the feeble War to wage With close Malevolence, or public Rage ; Let Study, worn with Virtue’s fruitless Lore...

... taking it sufficiently to heart : “My remarks may suggest that Salvini’s rage is too gross, too much that of a wounded animal; but in reality it does not fall into that excess. It is the rage of an African, but of a nature that remains generous to the end; and in spite of the tiger-paces...

... allegorical metaphors of sleepy minds. Her disappointingly brief treatment of Book 2 is partly redeemed by her account of the Bower of Bliss as “a perversity of imagining” (p. 244): Guyon’s rage in destroying the Bower is the rage of the poet “who sees his gift of imagination abused by its dark...

...) and, if Satan is not to be believed, even when he speaks “swoln with rage,” by Milton himself (I, 124; IV, 569-71). In Professor Pope’s book the motive is demon- strated in the third chapter, pp. 31-41, and its ramifications in the poem ana- lyzed, especially, in Chapter VII. I have here quoted from...

... to rave, rage like beasts, and run on to their own destruction?”2 To probe the nature and the sources of human evil is to engage in one of the most painful of human preoccupations, and one of the most recurrent. Even as Burton’s syntax enacts the transformation that Blake would image in lamb...

...; and that Alexander Pope is not likely to regard as dregs those unambitious for the greatness of suicide. We must therefore conclude that these con- tradktions are signs, not of Pope as heretical and morally culpable, but of the speaker’s mind distraught with grief, rage, and-one suspects but cannot prove...