... but by the founder of modern deism, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. It further argues that both Blount and Dryden were aware of Herbert’s English manuscript of Religio Laici before 1682. Dryden wrote his Religio Laici in a hurry to preempt the deists’ Religio Laici ; Blount then used Dryden’s poem to avoid censorship...

... and Related Religio-Erotic Themes. By NICOLASJAMES PERELLA.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. 356 pp. $10.95. The extended title is an accurate and succinct statement of the scope of this volume, which seemingly gives the lie to the once popular song’s assertion...

... to resolve these discrepancies by isolating an element that literally informs all three aspects of his work: speculation, faith, and style. The fact is that in Browne’s most personal essays-Religio Medici, Urn Burial, The Garden of Cyrus-the bulk of his tropes, for all their heterogeneity...

... of political opportunism has long been dropped. So has Bredvold’s ar- gument that Religio Laici is in fact a crypto-Catholic poem. In an important new book on Dryden’s religion G. Douglas Atkins canvasses some recent sugges- tions-that the Anglican church in the 1680s was moving in a political direc...

... a defense of his Anglican faith in Religzo Laici. The old charge of political opportunism has long been dropped. So has Bredvold’s ar- gument that Religio Laici is in fact a crypto-Catholic poem. In an important new book on Dryden’s religion G. Douglas Atkins canvasses some recent sugges- tions...

... theological limitations that he places so much emphasis there and so little on the birth and fulfillment of the new “selfButsince Religio Medici will not fit Fish’s paradigm or method 408 SEVENTEENTH-CENTU KY LI TEKATURE (or at least Fish does not see how it might...

... I. 1-396, Eloisa to Abelard, The Rape of the Lock, and Absalom and Achi- tophel, roughly in descending order of similarity. On the other hand, it is considerably more distantly related to that of such poems as An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, To Augustus, Religio Laici, and particularly...

... hervorgegangen war. Ein sensibles, religios erregtes, auZ3erlich gehemmtes Kind, das zunachst als wenig begabt und wenig strebsam galt. Sohn eines Kaufmanns, machte er eine hochst ungluck- liche kaufmannische Lehrzeit durch. Drei Jahre in Genf brachten geistige Befreiung und korperliche Kraftigung...

..., 1953. Pp. xiii + 406. $7.50. Davis, Herbert, and Irvin Ehrenpreis (editors). The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume the Eighth : Political Tracts, 1713-1719. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1953. Pp. xl + 243. $3.75. Denonain, Jean- Jacques (editor). Sir Thomas Browne : Religio...

... Mirabilis.. .” (p. 30). Our distrust increases when we hear that “All these poems [Absalom and Achitophel, Religio Laici, The Medal], however public they are, possess an intense personal drive to discover what is meaningful to John Dryden” (p. 143). We are also told that the plays...

...” does not help: “Dryden’s dis- covery of the personality of public poetry in Annus Mirabilis.. .” (p. 30). Our distrust increases when we hear that “All these poems [Absalom and Achitophel, Religio Laici, The Medal], however public they are, possess an intense personal drive to discover what...

...-Zebe but say almost nothing about Annus Mirabilis and nothing at all about Religio Laici or The Medull? There is much to be learned from this book. Dryden was more of a Jaco- bite than one might have expected, for, as McFadden convincingly shows, his respect for the House of Stuart...

... nicht irn Sinne der Jungdeutschen, die eine “Wiedereinsetzung des Fleisches” nur zu oft erwahnt hatten. Von der Unsittlichkeit der neuen Schule war Menzel iiberzeugt. Ihre Irreligiositat stand fur ihn auI3er Zweifel. Er selbst aber war stark religios, religios irn Sinne der Burschen...

... is the foundation upon which Whit- man bases the entire religio-political gospel of Leaves of Grass, be- cause in this “transparent” moment, the “I” first knew itself as a “we,” a plurality of equal selves, body and soul, within a unified whole. E pluribus unum could thus serve as Whitman’s founding...

... York Press, 1968. x + 102 pp. $5.00. Perella, Nicolas James. The Kiss Sacred and Profane: An Interpretative History of Kiss Symbolism and Related Religio-Erotic Themes. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. 356 pp. $10.95. Reeves, James. Commitment to Poetry...

... of Self-Revelation and Self-portraiture in Religio Medici”; Geoffrey Bullough, “Milton and Cats”; Merritt Y. Hughes, “Satan and the ‘Myth’ of the Tyrant”; H. R. Maccallum, “Milton and Sacred History: Books XI and XI1 of Paradise Lost”; Arthur E. Barker, “Structural and Doctrinal...

...: the conviction that nature is itself a perversion, a concept altogether meaningless in any but religio-ascetic terms. The brute, however, while “natural,” has his domain in the flesh, and therefore wars against Vandover’s “finer spirit.” This struggle is dramatized by the werewolf theme...

... Religion mit Chris- tentum gleichsetzt, scheint sie leicht zu beantworten. Dann ware nur zu sagen, darj weder Rilke noch Nietzsche religios waren, denn aus ihrer antichristlichen Haltung haben beide nie einen Hehl gemacht. Aher selbst das ist schief. Gerade Nietzsches leiden...

...). Sidoniu C. Rosenbaum 149 had a marked influence on his work-especially in The Unknown Eros. In Religio Poetue Patmore notes this admixture of religion and esthetics (a characteristic of so many English writers of his time) in the literature of Spain. “It is only in Spanish...

... 299 This religio-philosophic attribute of the Dorian mode, played, as Milton has it, on flutes and soft recorders, argues Plutarch as Mil- ton’s source rather than Plato or Aristotle; for whereas Plutarch has no hint of objection to the flute, both Plato and Aristotle condemn...