...Robert L. Montgomery Alastair Fowler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975. viii + 152 pp. £4.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 REVIEWS Conceilful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems. By ALASTAIRFOWLER...

... yoking of Smollett with a history of the concept of luxury in Western thought can lx made somehow to seem plausible (it never seems necessary), and even if it were possible to believe that Tobias Smollett could be the crowning expression of any tradition that begins in the Garden of Eden...

...Robert J. Clements Grahame Castor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964. 208 pp. $5.50. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 REVIEWS Ple‘iade Poetics: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Thought and Terminology. By GRAHAMECASTOR. New York...

... this book. ROBERTE. SPILLER University of Pennsylvania John Ruskin and Aesthetic Thought in America, 1840-1900. By ROGERB. STEIN. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. xviii + 321 pp. $8.95. One is tempted to characterize Roger...

...John Haag Frank Doggett. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii + 223 pp. $7.50; 60 s . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 242 REVIEWS Stevens' Poetry of Thought. By FRANK DOGGETI. Baltimore: Johns Hop...

... ; His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin ; At stroke of midnight God shall win. The bedrock of Yeats’s thought and poetry, according to Miss Stock, is their being founded on his traditional Irishness: the shadows and memories...

...Harvey Kerpneck Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 “KINGS OF MODERN THOUGHT” By HARVEYKERPNECK But-if you cannot give us ease- Last of the race of them who grieve Here leave us to die out...

.... ECONSCHWARZ Haruard University Nietzsche and the French: A Study of the Influence of Nietzsche’s French Reading on His Thought and Writing. By W. D. WILLIAMS.Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952. Pp. xxi + 206. 25s. More than a thousand books have been written about Nietzsche, yet...

... of His Thought and Feeling. By WILLIAMROSE. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1956. Pp. vii + 163. $2.90. Taking as his motto Heine’s remark in Die romontische Sckule, “die zwei wichtigsten Verhaltnisse des Menschen, das politische und das religiijse . Professor Rose has. written two...

....” ROGERL. BROOKS University of Colorado Wallace Stevens: An Approach to His Poctry and Thought. By ROBERTPACK. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1958. Pp. xvi + 203. $4.50. In spite of its deceptively explicit air, the poetry of Wallace Stevens depends for much of its...

... directed presentation. Her task demanded much labor and nice judgment, and it has been ably performed. SAMUELW. STEVENSON University of Richmond Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century. His Relation to American Critical Thought and His Influence...

.... GEORGEWHALLEY Qu een ’s U n iuers i i y Kingston, Ontario Existential Thought and Fictional Technique: Kierkegaard, Sartre, Ueckett. By EDITHKERN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. ix + 262 pp. $6.75. Since Wayne Booth published his seminal Rhetoric of’ Fiction...

... Herder: His Life and Thought. By ROBERTT. CLARK,JR. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1955. Pp. vi + 501. $6.50. Professor Robert T. Clark’s Herder fills a long-standing need for an authori- tative major book in English on one of Germany’s most seminal minds...

...Merle L. Perkins Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 VOLTAIRE’S PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL THOUGHT By MERLEL. PERKINS The intellectual substance behind Voltaire’s attack on contemporary institutions and practices has not been adequately described...

... 483 French Letters” must have been suggested to Thibaudet by his recol- lection of the pre-war poll on the significance of Boileau for modern times, which had been taken among French writers. From this initial datum we may reconstruct the sequence of thoughts in Thibaudet’s mind...

...~rrI I~ItIkS Thought. By MORTOND. PALEY.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1970. x -I- 272 pp. $9.00. ‘l’his is ii good book. Rejecting the pi-evalent theory that Blake’s system is relatively consistent and progressively fleshed out from the early lyrics to the prophecies...

...David Carroll The Enlightenment of the French Eye: The Limits of Intellectual History and the Master Narrative of Vision David Carroll l~ownmst~;VYS: ‘l’hu lhigmtion of Vision in ‘IivPntiPth-Gntury1;rQnch Thought. By Martin Jay. Berkeley: University of California Press...

...,” in the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (2008). Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics . By Richter Gerhard . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . 260 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference Richter Gerhard...

...” appeared in the September 1996 issue of MLQ . Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought . By Johnson Christopher D. . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature , 2010 . 695 pp. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Reviews...

... but challenging book must not be missed. WILLIAMH. MA-I(.HI.TI Urii-C~e?sityof M’diinyton R ti (11ru I Shell9 : The Phz losophicn I A n a rchis rn n ?id U t op iu n Thought of Percy Ry\s h e Shell?. By MI(:HAELHE” SCRIVENEK.Princeton...