... justify them- selves by helping to resolve the critical problem which has so divided the critics: how should we interpret the actions of Billy Budd and Cap- tain Vere? I hope to do this by elaborating Lawrance Thompson’s in- sight concerning the narrative technique of Silly Budd: “Melville used...

.... 115 116 ‘Billy Bud&: Testament of Redstance the story and to demonstrate that the “testament of acceptance” theory is essentially self-contradictory. The body of the story is concerned with the relationships of three men: Billy Budd, John Claggart, and Captain Vere. Whatever...

... began the book “with loud public praises of universal Progress echoing in his ears and a quiet convic- tion . . . that very much had been lost” (p. 208). In Dekker’s view, “Nelson, Billy, and even Vere reincarnate the heroic ideal . . .” (p. 209). He also concludes that DAVID H. HIRSCH...

.... Melville’s evasion of the dramatic scene is perhaps here most striking, for Billy Budd, more than any of the previous novels, has a subject demanding drama. The metaphysical theme is conveniently embodied in the tensions between Billy, Claggart, and Vere. The men need only be put...

... more example from Melville’s works shows the effect of a sys- tem’s synecdochical promise of full representation on the possibilities for subaltern agency. As a defender of monarchy, Captain Vere does not advocate a democratic organicism that celebrates the possibility of political self...

... the most original, Cotton the most re- vered, and Shepard the mystic and the best loved-produced works of real distinction. Miss Levy has written a very substantial and judicious study, of value not only to the student of American civilization, but to anyone who is interested...

... drew upon his- tory and historical writers, and even, on occasion, on the classical writers whom they had all studied in university days. Three of these preachers-Hooker, perhaps the most original, Cotton the most re- vered, and Shepard the mystic and the best loved-produced works...

..., and Keats’s Endynzion. His cautious support of Mrs. Josephine W. Bennett’s contention that Lyly’s work alludes to the affair of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, with Anne Vavasour, appears to be justified; and his exposition of the didacticism of Drayton’s work is not only adequate...

..., and together they en- compass no insignificant slice of human experience. To admit that on these subjects Emerson really had nothing significant to say . . . is certainly se- verely to qualify any claim that may be made for his greatness as a poet. (p. 200) No concentration...

... effectively ab- sent from or effectively distorted in Emerson’s vision, and together they en- compass no insignificant slice of human experience. To admit that on these subjects Emerson really had nothing significant to say . . . is certainly se- verely to qualify any claim...

... to the pair from Kimini. Whatever explicit references Dante makes to Lancelot and Guine- vere, Perella ferrets out what he feels are similarities with the Tristan legend. Attempting to correct Kajna, he finds a striking similarity in the groups Paolo-Francesca and Tristan-Yseut in the way...

...Frank H. Ristine Elizabeth French Boyd. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1945. Pp. vii + 193. $3.50. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 alludes to the affair of Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, with Anne Vavasour, appears to be justified; and his...

... critic who, in arguing the triviality of regionalism, would go on to say that it concern with a particular region was incompatible with great art. But dissertationese entails this cautious maneu- vering. Auster has to argue (as he does against Q. D. Leavis in the second chapter...

... he could write, in accepting an invitation to dinner, great pleasure will it be for me to see you at least once again before we go our various ways. I shall particularly like to realise how truly I am your neighbour 1 This letter and the last came from 29 De Vere Gardens, all the previ...

... odiava, e si amava sul serio, e si versavano vere lagrime per vere sciagure, e tutti gli uomini erano fatti di came e di ossa ed erano attaccati alla realti come alberi alla terra.9 These moments of nostalgia are rare, of course. For only seldom can he rise out of his lethargy and indolence...

... of particular poems. The chief virtue of the book lies in the author’s sensitive appreciation of effective descriptions and imagery, as in his explication of “Quia Amore Langueo” (pp. 80-81). About the apparition of the loathsome spirit of Guene- vere’s mother in the strange ghost-tale romance...

... dreamers. The emotional illnesses and lack of willpower that are ambigu- ously presented in his earlier works, moreover, become the protago- nists’ most redeeming qualities in the novels of the 1870s and 1880s— a development that culminates in Ovid Vere’s fainting fit in Heart and Science (1883).45...

... Kimini. Whatever explicit references Dante makes to Lancelot and Guine- vere, Perella ferrets out what he feels are similarities with the Tristan legend. Attempting to correct Kajna, he finds a striking similarity in the groups Paolo-Francesca and Tristan-Yseut in the way in which the lovers...

... supervision of action, Guinevere’s dalliance seems strik- ingly undirected. In the midst of her fear at the sight of the ghost, she reviles four knights by name as “vncurtays” (97) simply because they are not present and devoting their efforts to her current desires. Guine- vere needs to learn...

... language of nature, showing how the pronunciation of Hebrew words shaped the Holy Spirit into speech. In his AZphabeta’ vere naturalis Hebraici brewissirnu delineutio, Helmont discussed the motion of spirit from the lungs to the teeth, establishing correspondences between the shape of letters...