...Lewis C. Seifert Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale . By Elizabeth Wanning Harries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. xiv + 216 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Lewis C. Seifert is associate professor of French studies at Brown...

...Margaret Bruzelius © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.1-02 Bruzelius 2/9/01 2:05 PM Page 19 “The King of England . . . Loved to Look upon a man”: Melancholy and Masculinity in Scott’s Talisman Margaret Bruzelius...

...Thomas B. Stroup Thomas B. Stroup 327 This Great Argument: A Study of Milton’s “De Doctrina Chris- tiana” as a Gloss Upon “Paradise Lost.” By MAURICEKELLEY. Princeton University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv + 269. $5.00. Since its...

...Robert J. Ellrich B. Ellis Madeline. Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii + 199 pp. $6.00; 48s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay upon Art and Truth in “Les Confes- sions.” By MADELEINEB...

...Horace G. Rahskopf 266 Reviews The Efect of Stress Upon Quantity in Dissyllables. By NORMAN E. ELIASONand ROLANDC. DAVIS. Bloomington: Indiana University Publications, Science Series, No. 8, 1939. Pp. 56. $1.00. This monograph is more than...

... readings can be settled. FREDSONBOWERS University of Virginia Joseph Hall’s “Heaven upon Earth” and “Characters of Vertues and Vices.” Edited with an Introduction and Notes by RUDOLFKIRK. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University...

.... FRANKH. RISTINE Hamilton College The Secret Diary of IVilliam Byrd of Westover, 1709-1 712. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHTand MARIONTINLING. Richmond, Virginia : The Dietz Press, 1941. Pp. xxv + 622. $5.00. An Essay Upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent...

...Edwin H. Zeydel Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 EKKEHARD’S INFLUENCE UPON HROTSVITHA A STUDY IN LITERARY INTEGRITY By EDWINH. ZEYDEL Recently, while re-reading Hrotsvitha’s works, I was forcibly struck by the impressive similarity...

..., however, he does not articulate them. Although Spenser’s best work can be validly defended against those who insist upon compression and dramatic tension, his inferior efforts do exhibit a diffuseness and lack of coijrdination which should be brought into the open. Here the critical problem...

..., and as philosophies of social consensus and psychologies of empathetic affect recollected it sentimentally and benevolently. Post-Miltonically, Satan has earned sympathy or pity: upon Sin’s attaching our world with a great chain of necessitarian and material causality. 14 “Masculine Birth of Time” (1604...

...), the resemblance to the invocations and obsecrations is most marked.l Each of the addresses of the first invocations is directly followed by the same plea, with each response repeating the preceding address and plea. 0 God the Father of heaven : have mercy upon us miserable sinners. 0 God...

... impression on modern critics, it had quite the reverse effect in the early eighteenth century. In his Observations upon The Tale of a Tub (1705), William Wotton made a remark that not only illustrates the earlier reaction, but also, perhaps, implies a reason for both the eighteenth...

... and the converse I have had with him of sin- gular desert2 but there is little sense of intimacy, although perhaps the formal and public nature of the letter accounts for that. In the fol- See Don Cameron Allen, ‘‘ ‘Upon Appleton House,’ ” Image and Meaning: Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance...

...: Feminism and Paradise Lost,” MiltotiS, 14 (1980), 3-24. JOHN R. KNOTT, JR. 125 teenth-century Puritan. Crosman, in Reading “Paradise Lost,” agrees with much of Fish’s interpretation and with his emphasis upon the reader’s experience, but rejects...

... to Latin antiquity throughout the canon further reinforce the irnpression that the subject of Rome exerts a continuous pull upon his imagination. Yet critics have largely underestimated the generic similarities linking the three plays to which they apply the familiar but usually unexamined epi...

... in the eighteenth century, but for its subsequent manifesta- tions. This critical movement started seriously with Professor Lan- son’s thesis upon Nivelle de la Chausse‘e et la Come‘die larrnoyante, and continued throughout the present twentieth century, culminating in Professor Trahard’s Les Ma2tres de la...

... it its final form in Jewish rationalistic philosophy.1 It may be added that Joseph Albo, commenting upon Maimonides in the early fifteenth century, simplifies the elaborate system which had developed through the years.a Of Milton’s contemporaries John Smith made the most extensive study...

... Shakespeare, ed. William Allan Neilson and Charles Jarvis Hill, New Cambridge Edition (Cambridge, Mass., 1942). 3 Frank Kermode, “The Mature Comedies,” in Early Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon Studies 3, ed. John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris (London, 1961), p. 214...

... in Italy, a book dominated by the twin themes that this period gave a new primacy to the individual personality and that it marked the beginning of the modem world. Scholars more recent than Burckhardt, without the tendency of their predecessors to look upon the medieval church as a con...

..., contained in a letter to Lady Sunderland, August 4, 1690,l makes no reference to the Royal Society. Upon his return from the continent during the Interregnum, he said, he needed to employ his time “when weary froin study” and sought by what innocent diversion I might sometime relieve...