...Eric Rothstein Sitter John. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. 230 pp. $19.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 212 REVIEWS touches topics- the poem’s ‘Juvenalian” elements, the way in which Atticus...

... of exploratiorl. ,bid yet, a closer look at their method may confirm the appropriateness of‘ niy ow 11 stereot y piiig . To start out with .John E. Sitter’s Poetry of Pope’s “Ilzrnciad” seems proper, riot only because the book’s limited scope makes it tlie easiest to discuss, but also because...

...: Cornell University Press, 1982. 230 pp. $19.50. With considerable intelligence and urbanity, John Sitter pursues a triple argument: he elucidates a cluster of themes or attitudes centered on the def- inition of the writer, in the 1740s and 175Os, as a solitary figure; he asserts...

... they have from thoughtful, perceptive scholars like Sitter, we are in need of a broad, complex study of those years; whoever writes it will be often, and sometimes deeply, in Sitter’s debt. ERICROTHSTEIN University of Wisconsin, Madison...

... : Columbia University Press . Lewis Philip . 2002 . “ Is Monographic Tyranny the Problem? ” PMLA 117 , no. 5 : 1222 – 24 . Ryan Judith , Avelar Idelber , Fleissner Jennifer , Lashmet David E. , Miller J. Hillis , Pike Karen H. , Sitter John...

... in The Burden ofthe Past and the English Poet (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970), chaps. 2-3; Harold Bloom also elaborates their psychological situation in The Anxiety of Influence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973) and in later books. John Sitter approaches them through...

...: Sam- plings and Soundings. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1982. xx + 400 pp. $65.00. Sitter, John. Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. Ithaca and Lon- don: Cornell University Press, 1982. 230 pp. $19.50. Stevens, David. English Renaissance Theatre...

... of poetry. In what follows I take up Steve Newman’s ( 2007 : 7) suggestion that the ballad revival instigated “elite lyric’s transformative encounter” with song, where what John Sitter ( 1982 : 9) calls an emerging lyric poetry of “literary loneliness”—the odes, elegies, and meditative night thoughts...

... principles for launching its attacks (see, e.g., Sitter 2005 ; Weinbrot 1988 : 192–93). Churchill propounds whimsical opinions whose claims to universality readers cannot but doubt. By contrast, Cowper’s voice is regarded as unique largely because of his attempts to express his religious convictions...

..., Jules Paul (editor). Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage. New York: Barnes 8c Noble, 1971. xv 4- 526 pp. $19.00. Sitter, John E. The Poetry of Pope’s “1)unciatl.” i\GIinneapolis: I lniversity of b1 innesota Press, 197 1. 136 pp. $5.75. 94...

..., “pas jolie, mais d’un type curieux” (by no means beautiful but of a curious type) (2.203/1.906). Her male attire gives her a “caractère ambigu,” and at first he is unsure of the sitter’s sex, but eventually he realizes that it is Odette. This leads him into a reflection on types. Women like Odette, he...

... of temporality. John Sitter traces from Pope to Thomson a “significant shift . . . fi-om spatial to temporal theodicy, from proportion to progress,” and argues that Thomson’s poetry “insists upon articulating. . . the fundamental prob- lem confronting the poets: the secular but spiritual meaning...

... functionlessness of artistic practice and transforms it into a vision of the highest good” (The Ideology ofthe Aus- thetic [Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 19901, 64-5). John Sitter made the case for a post-Augustan “flight from history” in 1,itPmry Idonelines in Midig~tee!enth-CenturyEngland...

... and to equate pictorial and physical entities calls to mind her favorite heroines’ tendency to objectify their imagined “portraits”of the people around them and to vivify actual portraits in light of their own experience of the sitter. In the context of Austen’s own mental habits, Elizabeth...

...,” in Letters, 1 :1-7. 19 John Sitter, similarly interested in the persistence of the topic of belief in Hume’s writings, connects it to Hume’s literary style (Literary Loneliness in Mid- Eighteenth-CenturyEngland [Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 19821 ). Vermeule I Hume, Warton, Cowper...

..., whereas Southey is a fence-sitter whose text is more conflicted than he himself could realize. Much of the controversy about British India nowadays concerns the rival ideologies of the orientalists (such as William Jones), who gave Indian cul- ture...

..., whereas Southey is a fence-sitter whose text is more conflicted than he himself could realize. Much of the controversy about British India nowadays concerns the rival ideologies of the orientalists (such as William Jones), who gave Indian cul- ture...

..., whereas Southey is a fence-sitter whose text is more conflicted than he himself could realize. Much of the controversy about British India nowadays concerns the rival ideologies of the orientalists (such as William Jones), who gave Indian cul- ture...

..., whereas Southey is a fence-sitter whose text is more conflicted than he himself could realize. Much of the controversy about British India nowadays concerns the rival ideologies of the orientalists (such as William Jones), who gave Indian cul- ture...

... strong objection to Clubb’s hypothesis of an analogical relationship between a period of personal disillusionment in Swift’s life and the Sitter treatment of mankind in the novel is that the hypothesis, if true, would constrain Clubb to treat GzilZiver’s Trazrels not as a unique work...