... University Spiritual Autobiography in Early America. By DANIELB. SHEA,JR. Prince- ton: Princeton University Press, 1968. xvi + 280 pp. $7.50. The abundance of autobiography among writings in English, published or unpublished, is now recognized. Even when selection is made of items...

...C. Roland Wagner Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 -1‘herewas a niiititiy centre before we breathed. allace Stevens THE EXCREMENTAL AND THE SPIRITUAL...

...). PETERMILWARD Sophia University, Tokyo Eichendorfl The Spiritual Geometer. By LAWRENCERADNER. Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies, 1970. 372 pp. $8.75. Lawrence Kadner’s book is likely to provoke conflicting responses in its readers. On the one hand, they will no doubt...

... Walther’s complete works with a more mean- ingful number system than that developed by Lachmann nearly a century and a half ago. GEORGEF. JONES University of Maryland Defoe 6. Spiritual Autobiography. By G. A. STARR.Princeton: Princeton...

...’ delight in the poem’s “ease and variety,” but it is also a fundamental misreading of the ethics of labor set out in the poem. In its enactment of the spiritual and writerly work of the shepherd, in Milton’s revisions, and in its monodic form, “Lycidas” offers readers a choice between sensual dalliance and...

... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...

... for desire and action, sin indicates the subject’s splitting by the norms that organize it. Piers Plowman , which explores the medieval split subject through formal experimentation, repeatedly encounters the demands of political, ethical, economic, and spiritual life and repeatedly problematizes all...

... others and would help explain Nervo’s willingness to accept Maeterlinck’s ideas and theories regarding the spiritual problems wit5 which they were both preoccupied. It was during his second residence in Europe, beginning in 1905, that Nervo came definitely under the influence of...

... of its own workers and of other people, we show a total misunderstanding of the period. The com- mercial pioneers of this era possessed a curious idealism which iden- tified economic prosperity and spiritual welfare.” In their eyes, suc- cess was a talisman of God’s favor ; and only the...

..., nor is it a symbol of the spiritual world; it is this world universalised, irradiated by the spirit, raised up, as man for ever seeks to raise himself, towards the divine” @. 7). If Godfrey’s study makes me feel uneasy (as it does), the reason is not my inability to believe in the occult or...

... inwardly into his model and attempted the history of a soul. “The true inter- preter,” wrote Du Bos, “must describe, not exactly the work before him, but the spiritual mood created by the work in the reader.” Such creative criticism, the most ambitious but also the most valuable of all...

...Sidonia C. Rosenbaum THE REVIVAL OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS By SIDONIAC. ROSENBAUM A revival of interest in religion, mysticism, and the spiritual life in general-among philosophers (William James, Delacroix, Berg- son), among...

... Ideas (that is, moments of spiritual illumination, self-less, redeeming, unwilled, and unconsciously attained 1 See my article, “Fullness of Dissonance: Music and the Reader’s Experience of Modern Fiction,”MFS, 25 (1979), 209-22. 2 Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, ed. Pierre...

... than on spiritual values, while the latter, no longer so exclusively concerned with the struggle for gaining a liveli- hood, became conscious of its starved emotional life and thus sought to create and grasp inner and spiritual values through its intuitive and emotional faculties...

... makes understandable a touch of myopia in discussing the place of temporalities in Swift’s own thinking. Landa’s state- ment that “his concern was less with spiritual or doctrinal affairs than with temporal” would seem to be borne out by this study, but as tlie book confine. itself to...

... spiritual exaltation through heroic effort rather than self- knowledge. Charles Moorman’s concept of Lancelot is needlessly restricted when he refers to him as “the perfect secular hero.” He is of course both secular and spiritual. His agonized striving to attain the mysteries at the Grail Castle...

... biography. And now Miss Tuell writes to correct both Hare and Carlyle, giving us for the third time the story of a man of no considerable achieve- ment, dead at thirty-eight, who lived much of his short life in spiritual turmoil and departed it with defeated aspirations-leaving behind him a...

... explain psychological processes, hence volition, in terms of necessary causal relations, was fiercely combatted by libertarians as a denial of the spirituality of the soul, the confusion of this “substance” with matter or conversion of man into a machine compelled to act by an external force...

..., moralists, and exegetical writers of the Latin and vernacular Middle Ages. The unity of the poem is seen in the Christian, moral, or anagogical attitudes toward fame, which Koonce examines with an eye both to the spiritual past and the secular present, and thus in a...

.... The other, higher or spiritual love is Aphrodite Urania, born from the foam that arose after the genitals of the castrated Uranus fell into the sea. By virtue of her birth, she is a mediator or connecting link between the sensual world embod- ied in the sea and the spiritual sphere, the divine...