...Rosemond Tuve By Cleanth Brooks. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. Pp. xi + 253. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Brents Sfsrling 147 Mr. Phillips, however, has been successful in what he endeav...

...Rosemond Tuve 364 Reviews by which every old-spelling text must be judged-ertain necessary biblio- graphical investigations are unaccountably lacking to make the text somewhat less than definitive. For example, whereas Mr. Duthie took account of the proof...

... we are doubly grateful. Within its covers Rosemond Tuve has given us not only a work on the medieval allegorical tradition, but also a study of its significance for the Renaissance and, in particular, for the reading of the Faerie Queene. What were the presuppositions that Spenser and his...

...George R. Potter Rosemond Tuve. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 442. $6.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 H. T Price 359 However, in spite of any defect, this is the richest and soundest body...

... the differences between this kind of reading and that by Rosemond Tuve or Louis L. Martz, both of whom would seem on the surface at least to have a similar interest in theological 444 REVISING HERBERT contexts. Strier’s comments on “The Bunch of Grapes” are exem...

... and Iconography (Princeton, 1969); D. W. Robert- son, Jr., A Preface to Chaucer (Princeton, 1962), pp. 91-104, 195-207; Rosemond Tuve, Allegor- ical Imagery: Some Mediaeval Ilooks and Their Posterity (Princeton, 1966). pp. 233-84. * Line references throughout are to the edition of FClix Lecoy, CFMA, 92...

... and focuses upon Sidney as their critical spokesman. I make no attempt to catalogue critical studies. Some twenty years ago Rosemond Tuve wrote “A Critical Survey of Scholarship in the Field of English Literature of the Renais- sance” (SF,XL, 1945) in over...

.... Formal critics like Helen Vendler have removed Herbert’s poems from their historical con text; religious critics have claimed their universal Christian signifi- cance; historical critics like Louis Martz and Rosemond Tuve have confidently produced medieval and Catholic models2 Supported...

... to imagery have been abundantly documented by the reception in recent years of the Spurgeon book, one of the best of these critiques being Rosemond Tuve’s Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery. They are documented again in this author’s introduction as well as in his text. He glances...

... being Rosemond Tuve’s Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery. They are documented again in this author’s introduction as well as in his text. He glances at Wellek and Warren’s Theory of Literature, discards the definition of imagery proposed by Tuve, and follows tliat used by Spurgeon. He...

... and historical hares. There are, of course, some outstanding exceptions. Two of the most obvious are Rosemond Tuve and Northrop Frye. Miss Tuve’s Eliza- bethan and Metaphysical Imagery (1947) finally and unmistakably broke the spell of many of Eliot’s formulations about Renaissance and seven- teenth...

..., and it is to be hoped that in subsequent editions the pub- lishers will supply this lack. H. T. PRICE University of Michigan Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery : Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics. By Rosemond Tuve. Chicago : Univer- sity...

... has been the rejection, by some at least, of the assumptions established by Joseph Summers and Rosemond Tuve that have for so long domi- nated the study of Herbert, namely, that Herbert’s language and verse communicate meaning by imitating and representing the symbols di- vinely placed...

... are referred in a footnote, however, to Kosemond Tuve’s Elizu bet han ,and Metaphysical Imagery “on the convention of the poet as gardener” (p. 263, n. 10). But Tuve is there discussing the significance of images and quoting Puttenham on the resemblance of the gardener and the physician to the artist...

... of the pulsing rhythm of life that lies at the heart of Ecclesiastes. There cannot be “a time for living, and a time for dying,” for, to Gryphius, man is dying from the moment of his birth. In her book on Elizabethan and Renaissance imagery, Rosemond Tuve discusses at length the problem...

... Tuve has made a major contribution to Renaissance scholarship and criticism. One would like to commend Thomas P. Roche, Jr., for an excellent job of editing her manuscript and the Princeton University Press for publishing it in so attractive a format. This is a highly important book...

..., 1947. Pp. xxii + 312. $3.75. Tuve, Rosemond. Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery : Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 442. $6.00. Wallis, Lawrence B. Flctcher, Beaumont Sr Company : Entertainers to the Jacobean...