...Lionel J. Friedman Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE YARN OF THE CHANSON DE TOILE RESPUN By LIONELJ. FRIEDMAN For more than half a century, the treatment given by Alfred Jeanroy in Les Origines de la poke lyrique en France au moyen 6ge...

...Robert Donald Spector Louis I. Bredvold. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961. Pp. 164. $3.95. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 110 The Yam of the “Chanson de Toile” Respun final moment in the love adventure, and that the focus of attention...

... of it is both symptomatic and exemplary of its emergence as a stock motif in the eighteenth-century didactic epic. The seasonal theme conspicuous in Virgil’s example is under- scored in the change of “As in successive Toil the Seasons rofl” (376) to “As in successive course the seasons roll” (121...

... Zola (“Lord, how the man toils and Dickens (“a wonderfully active . . . life37 In Gissing’s fiction a commitment to work is associated with vir- tue. Take Richard Mutimer in Demos. At first, while still uncor- rupted, he is praised for his capacity and vigor (p. 33). He rises early...

..., to fix the wavering balance of my mind, And haply meet reproaches, too, whose power May spur me on, in manhood now mature, To honorable toil. (6 50-53) The Prelude itself is not honorable toil, but hopefully in the course of his narrative he...

... toile de la valeur de cent mille francs dans un magasin qu’une somme de cent rnille francs dans un coffre fort. I1 est vrai que tantbt la toile augmente de prix, tantbt c’est l’argent qui augmente, mais le risque est Cgal pour l’une et pour l’autre marchandise. I1 est donc certain que...

... nouvelle, une question d‘histoire IittCraire, et que le second a pour sous-titre Xsthetic Theories and Technical Practices? Le simple titre classique: L’Art de la mu- velle n’aurait-il pas tout dit? Par contre ce premier chapitre est largement trait6 et donne comme toile de fond...

... in the first stanza is soon “throng’d” with animals, surrounded by “plenteous scenes” and “noisy, busy toils” (ll. 7–9). Clare also populates the poem with a sequence of types of workers—the laboring rustic, the bird boy, the mower, the picker, and the loading boy, each worker repetitively sweeping, drinking...

...- samtkatalog” that will save future workers an incalculable number of hours of toil and delay. LAWRENCEM. PRICE University of California at Berkeley Natural Science in German Romanticism. By ALEXANDERGODE- VON AESCH. New York: Columbia University Press...

... to recommend him as a model is his call to work: Our orisons completed, let us hence, Each to his task of toil-not heavy, though Needful. The earth is young and yields us kindly Her fruits with little labour. (47-50) The faintly Miltonic style does...

.... Except for an introductory chapter on the Althorp Spencers and a last chapter fittingly entitled “Sleep after Toil,” the book lays special stress on “the atmosphere in which Spenser moved.” The author has, to use his own words, “undertaken to place [the poet] in his environment, surround...

...George J. Engelhardt Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE PREDICAMENT OF GAWAIN By GEORGEJ. ENGELHARDT There is a kind of predicament so exclusive in its conditions that ordinary men never find themselves in its toils...

... demander si, pour Imbrie Buffum, le point de dCpart de l’explication des Tragiques n’Ctait pas une toile du Greco ou de Rubens, une statue du Bernin, la ...

....’amour physique et char- nel qui ont kte inculquks B l’kcrivain par sa mkre), mais l’Ctre humain. Car toil te lit tkra ture abou ti t B une connaissance, et Bosco, s’kloignant du modsle moraliste et psychologique traditionnel en France, essaye d’atteindre B cette connaissance par l’intui tion...

... question d‘histoire IittCraire, et que le second a pour sous-titre Xsthetic Theories and Technical Practices? Le simple titre classique: L’Art de la mu- velle n’aurait-il pas tout dit? Par contre ce premier chapitre est largement trait6 et donne comme toile de fond l’kvolution du genre en...

... unarticulated “line” startles Wordsworth at the same moment that it offers an avenue for self- renewal. The brother, now returned to the sea, has left behind the si- lent tracing of a mind never plagued by the intense self-consciousness and toil of poetic composition. Wordsworth is surprised...

..., warping, unraveling, and even inverting of the imposed idiom” (235). Even the lowly provision ground, granted by the cunning plantocrat as a way to make the enslaved toil to grow their own food on Sundays, becomes the place to fabricate a liberating commercial and communitarian identity, whereby...

... utopian imaginings were motivated by a desire to free people from the constraints of unrewarding toil by giving them the liberty to move at will from job to job and from one location to the next. “It can be no sort of Utopia worth desiring that does not give the utmost freedom of going to and fro,” writes...

... WILLIAM COLLINS Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crouded life; Thensay. . . . ( 1-5)14 Collins invokes “Observance” in these terms: 0 Thou, who lov’st that ampler Range...

... faithfully : But, sad and lonely, by the midnight oil, I turn the weary page with ceaseless toil, That tells how Richard stray’d from post to post, What towns he din’d in, and what bridges crost; How many eagles by the way were seen...