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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 March 1945
... is claim enough for some remembrance. JAMES L. CLIFFORD Lehigh University Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786: Being the Travel Diary and Ob- servations of Robert Hunter, Jr., a Young Merchant of London. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHTand MARIONTINLING. San...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 77–105.
Published: 01 March 1996
... and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (1994) as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and modern poetry, drama, and fiction. Lowelling and Laureling: Revising Gender and Genre in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day Barbara L. Estrin The man who keeps the Gorgon becomes the Gorgon.-Peter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 61–67.
Published: 01 March 1944
...Allan H. Gilbert Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ROBERT HERRICK ON DEATH By ALLANH. GILBERT The poetry of Robert Herrick, vicar of Dean Prior, is usually well represented in anthologies, yet the works...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 500–501.
Published: 01 December 1944
...Edward G. Cox Robert T. Fitzhugh. With The Journal of the Border Tour. DeLancey Ferguson Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943. Pp. x + 133. $3.00. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 500 Reviews seau with great generosity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Matthew Wickman This essay addresses the relationship between shape and number that is implicit to the conversion of statistics into forms of visual display. It does so by way of the work and legacy of Robert Burns, particularly the well-known poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” Bearing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Yosefa Raz Abstract Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 28–35.
Published: 01 March 1954
...William R. Mueller © 1954 University of Washington 1954 ROBERT BURTON’S “SATYRICALL PREFACE” By WILLIAMR. MUELLER Robert Burton’s “Satyricall Preface,” his “Democritus Junior to the Reader,” has an even more important function than that of intro...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 March 1988
... forward to reading with pleasure in the coming years. GEORGEBORNSTEIN University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Robert Penn Wawen and American Idealism. By JOHN BURT.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 238 pp. $22.50...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 303–306.
Published: 01 September 1980
.... RICHARDBLESSING University of Washington Robert Lowell: Life and Art. By STEVENGOULD AXELROD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xiii + 286 pp. $14.50. The mixture of public and private topics in Robert Lowell’s autobiographical poetry suggests one way for American poets...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 193–194.
Published: 01 June 1982
... University of California, Los Angeles The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren. By JAMES H. JUSTUS. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, Southern Literary Studies, 1981. xviii + 362 pp. $32.50,cloth; $12.95, paper. The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren has no singular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Lynn Keller Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 LESSONS FROM WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ROBERT CREELEY’S EARLY POETRY By LYNNKELLER Like many artists coming of age during the “global nightmare” of World War 11, Robert Creeley...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 415–416.
Published: 01 December 1984
... as it looked at the beginning of the discontinuous 1980s. NELSONHILTON University of Georgia Robert Browning: His Poetry and His Audiences. By LEEERICKSON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 287 pp. $25.00...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 215–218.
Published: 01 June 1985
... of Robert Browning. By ROSS POSNOCK.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. 231 pp. $24.00. No other American or English novelist has been the subject of more comparative studies than has Henry James. Books have been written about the literary or personal relations of James to Henry Adams...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (1): 79–82.
Published: 01 March 1986
...Robert E. Helbling Rolf Keiser. Berne: Paul Haupt, 1984. 267 pp. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 PAUL DOUGLASS 79 Using Bergson, James, Bradley, and Nietzsche as touchstones, Schwartz offers us a spectrum...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 248–250.
Published: 01 June 1970
... Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Sixteenth Cen- tury. By GILLIANJONDORF. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. viii + 162 pp. $6.00. This monograph is, quite obviously, a revised doctoral thesis from which have been removed most, but unfortunately not quite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 211–212.
Published: 01 June 1972
...George C. Avery Dierk Rodewald. Bad Homburg: Gehlen, Literatur und Reflexion, 1, 1970. 246 pp. DM 28 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 GEOKGE C. ’4VEKY 21 I Robert Walsers Prosa: Versuch einer Strukturanalyse. Hy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 September 1966
... OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY’’ By MARJORIEPERLOFF In its conventional form, the elegy is characterized by a temporal movement from lament to consolation. Yeats’s first elegy on Robert Gregory, “Shepherd and Goatherd,” written in March, 1918, on the model...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 473–477.
Published: 01 December 1967
...Mary Ann Caws Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 TECHNIQUES OF ALIENATION IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF ROBERT DESNOS By MARYANN CAWS At a first reading, Robert Desnos’s Deuil pour deuil (1924) and La Libertt ou...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 497–503.
Published: 01 December 1968
... primero” (p. 664). Written in a clear and precise prose, and revealing a penetrating critical sense, Nietzrche en Espafia is a valuable addition to the history of Spanish culture. M. C. PENUELAS University of Washington Studien zu Robert...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 181–190.
Published: 01 June 1963
...George C. Avery Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 A POET BEYOND THE PALE: SOME NOTES ON THE SHORTER WORKS OF ROBERT WALSER By GEORGEC. AVERY The Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) published three un...