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...Alberta Turner Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 FRENCH VERSE IN THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE POETICAL MISCELLANIES, 1600-1660 By ALBERTATURNER During the reigns of the first two Stuarts and Cromwell, the study of French...

... of West- Germanic Verse. By RENOIR. Foreword by ALBERTB. LORD. Univer- sity Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. xiv + 224 pp. $32.00. Two hundred years of brilliant insight and painstaking research have convinced scholars of the existence of the Indo...

... and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire. By HOWARDD. WEIN- BKOT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xx + 388 pp. $35.00. In his previous book, Augustus Caesar in “Augwstan” England (1 978), How- ard D. Weinbrot set out to overturn our habit of referring to the Age of Pope and Swift...

... AND THE GHASTLY A MORAL AESTHETIC IN MIDDLE ENGLISH ALLITERATIVE VERSE* By SUSANNA6. FEIN In Middle English alliterative verse the ghoulish and the ghastly frequently appear as spectral visions to horrify the reader into a close...

... metaphors, less stridency, and an ability to recognize the more subterranean affinities of the figures it so firmly puts on the side of the angels. ANTHONYJOHN HARDING Uniuersity of Saskatchewan Shelley’s Major Verse: The Narratiue and Dramatic...

... of Wmhington Twentieth-Century German Verse. Translated by HERMANSALINGER. Prince- ton: Princeton University Press, 1952. Pp. xxiii + 93. $2.50. What Herman Salinger presents in this slender, handsomely made volume, is a very personal anthology of modern German verse: two score poems...

... (2004). Valencia’s Verlaine: The Social History of a Colombian Verse José María Rodríguez García Lyric Poetry and Late-Nineteenth-Century Society any of the poems in Guillermo Valencia’s volume Poesías (1898), reti- Mtled Ritos in 1899, are about a suffering and solitary figure...

.... They imagined that Spenser had found the conventions of his time too restrictive and so had overflowed earlier verse forms with a “loose and luxuriant harmony,” which “has afforded room enough for . . . expansion of thought” (“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” 1817 : 22–23). 3 Yet to stress the period’s interest...

...George W. Umphrey Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 SPANISH BALLADS IN ENGLISH PART 11, VERSE TECHNIQUE By GE~RCEw. UMPJTREY One hundred and fifty years ago Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, published his Essay...

...Matthew Garrett Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic . By Colin Wells . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . viii + 342 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Thomas Jefferson possessed more than two...

...Karl S. Weimar Leonard Forster. The Penguin Book of German Verse . Penguin Books D 36, 1957. Pp. xlii + 466. $0.95. © 1959 University of Washington 1959 John A. Huazard 291 That the Savonarola who dominates the pages of Romola...

... of Washington Hcrod adMariamne: A Tragedy in Five Acts, by Friedrich Hebbel. Trans- lated into English Verse by PAULH. CURTS.Chapel Hill: University .of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literature, No. 3, 1950. Pp. 96. $2.00, paper; $2.50, cloth. Hew’s ghost...

... being issued over his name. A Shropshire Lad was Housman’s masterpiece, and after he had seen Last Poems through the press, he realized, perhaps better than anyone else, that his poetic vein was thin and narrow. Perfect of its kind as it was, his verse was in a minor key. He published...

... (Queens) Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714. Vol. I: 1660-1678. Edited by GEORGEDEFOREST LORD. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. Ivi + 506 pp. $10.00. The Dial of Virtue: A Study of Poems on Affairs of State in the Seventeenth...

...Kenneth Muir Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 1 Brian Vickerst. he Artist of Shakespeares PYOSGL. ondon: Methuen, 1968. ix + 452 pp. $12.00; 755. Distributed in?JSA. by Barnes & Noble. SHAKESPEARE: PROSE AND VERSE...

... of the excellent bibliography. DONALDSTONE, JR. Haruard University English Verse: Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats. By T. R. BARNES. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1967. ix + 324 pp. $6.50. In his introduction T. R. Barnes announces...

...Margaret Maurer Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 JOHN DONNE’S VERSE LETTERS By MARGARETMAURER John Donne’s occasional poetry does not easily admit the enthusiasm readers feel for his other work. His passionate...

... to the history and interpretation of contemporary thought. The book marks a substantial progress in the field of comparative studies. GEORGETTER. SCHULER State College of Wizshington A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse. Compiled and edited...

... of political theory, was familiar with the actual ideas of Machiavelli is another matter, and one which presents a subject for further study. University of North Carolina A CORRECTION TO “SOME MORE HOBSON VERSES” By G. BLAKEMOREEVANS After it was too late...

...Don A. Keister Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 DONNE AND HERBERT OF CHERBURY: AN EXCHANGE OF VERSES By DONA. KEISTER In 1608 Edward Herbert said farewell to his wife and children and set out on a belated grand tour...