...Ella Zohar Ophir © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Ella Zohar Ophir is lecturer at the University of Toronto. Forthcoming essays include a study of the fictions of Laura Riding and Wyndham Lewis and an inquiry into modernist treatments of everyday life. The Laura Riding Question...

...G. C. Schoolfield Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 CHARLES XI1 RIDES IN WORPSWEDE By G. C. SCHOOLFIELD In the diary for October 2, 1900, Rilke set down the second and longer section of “Karl der Zwolfte von Schweden reitet in der Ukraine...

... in a particular book, and this, it develops, is rather perplexing. It happens that Graves is only one oE the two authors of A Suruey of Modernist Poetry, the other being the poet and critic Laura Riding, and as though anticipating possible neglect of this fact, the book carries the special prefatory...

... couriers of the air.” We can give an answer to the question put earlier : is Pity like the human and helpless babe, or powerful as the angel that rides the winds? It is both; and it is strong because of its very weakness. The paradox is inherent in the situation itself; and it is the paradox...

... the backward-turned heads of the emblem- book tradition or the backward-riding Jews of medieval and Renais- sance art in pointing graphically to the Old Testament nature of the moral embodied in the image. In addition, the satyrs-presented as a shepherd race under the lead- ership of old Sylvanus...

.... Into such a world Woolf projects the artist, for only he can extract from the universe a comprehensive yet kinetic pattern. Initially, Ber- nard must strip away the layers of habit and of role to demonstrate how to act meaningfully-how to ride with the waves; finally and most im- portantly, he must...

... Heinrich v.d. Tiirlin (Strassburg diss., 1902). 72 A Vindication of Heinrich von dem Turlin white shirt, and every night he rides around singing sweet songs of love. Next night the angry king sets out with three companions to encounter his rival. The white knight turns up...

..., the shield of Hope, the sword of Courage, the spear Adventure, and thus apparelled and mounted on a steed called Will, he rides upon his way. This leads him over mountains until he comes to a goodly green where he encounters a huge knight called Disagreement mounted on a horse named Ire...

... to such words and turns, found in this translation, as : “stick-in-the-mud” for heimuelskr (fond of staying at home) ; “those days” for “in those days”; “it’s no good you riding rough-shod over men” for “it will never do for you to ride, etc [‘a lot of lousy thralls” for “ill- conditioned thralls...

... CORRESPONDENCE As she explains in her introductory paragraphs, Laura (Riding) Jackson has sent MLQ the following brief article in connection with an earlier pledge. W. H. M. ON AMBIGUITY By LAURA(RIDING) JACKSON [In the December 1971 issue...

... Riding) that the missing person (excluded as from a literary cloakroom ses- sion) be given space for self-representation. I have been made a subject of as- saults for positions, misattributions, in gloating unscholarly satisfaction with unsupported characterizations and the use of quoted words...

... of these tells how murderers and criminals had to ride in the carts mi their way to execution or other punishment. We are told: qui a forfet estoit repris s’estoi t sor la charre te mis et menez par totes les rues...

... University Press, 1972. x + 168 pp. $8.00. It used to be that we saw Marlowe as spokesnian for those Keriaissarice men of aspiring mind. We saw that all nature taught I’amburlaine to yearn to ride in triumph through Persepolis: it was passing brave to be a king. When these heroes went...

... CORRESPONDENCE As she explains in her introductory paragraphs, Laura (Riding) Jackson has sent MLQ the following brief article in connection with an earlier pledge. W. H. M. ON AMBIGUITY By LAURA(RIDING) JACKSON [In the December 1971 issue...

...John Whittier Treat [email protected] Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival . By Wai Chee Dimock . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 228 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The roller-coaster ride that is Weak Planet...

... 1.) Janet may win him back by pulling him fi-om his horse as he rides by in the fairy train, then holding fast while he undergoes succes- sive fearful changes of shape. That night Janet sets out for Miles Cross (Miles Corse, Miles Moss, Rides Cross, Blackning Cross, Bells port, Crickmaugh...

... and at the same time checkreining his angry steed, the “lovely ladie” riding beside him “Upon a lowly asse more white then snow,” the “milkewhite lambe,” and the lagging dwarf are all firmly fixed in the memories of thousands of readers. The picture is clear-cut and un- ambiguous : the main figures...

... “rid forth by the place, as nought ne were, And thow shalt fynde us, if I may, sittynge At som wyndowe, into the strete lokynge.” (2.1013-15) Pandarus does succeed in steering his niece to the window (1 185-86); and when Troilus rides...

... with Arthur remains the strongest praise possible in the courtly romance. When in Wolfram the young Parzival first sees knights, he believes them to be gods. Heinrich refers to this passage in an attempt to en- hance Gawein’s splendor. For as Gawein rides to battle, it is he who would...

... the plain breaks the spell of the moment. He passes through the rooms which are described as “totenstill” and rides away from the castle : Er atmete tief auf, als er draussen in die herrliche Nacht hineinritt, seine Seele war wie von tausend Ketten frei. Es war ihm, als ob er aus...