...Howard D. Weinbrot Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770. By Jonathan Brody Kramnick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. viii + 287 pp. $59.95; The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century. By Trevor...

...Howard D. Weinbrot Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 POPE’S “ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY” By HOWARDD. WEINBROT Our understanding of Pope’s poetry has been much enhanced by the efforts of con...

...Howard D. Weinbrot NO “MOCK DEBATE” QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES By HOWARDD. WEINBROT “They who are demanded by others, instantly rouse themselves with eagerness...

...Dustin Griffin D. Weinbrot Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xx + 388 pp. $35.00. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 210 REVIEWS tinuing the York Medieval Texts series, and second, for turning out...

... 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 as the Augustan period of English literature by demonstrat- ing that in the eighteenth century...

... serves as Pope’s opposite- without acknowledging that previous critics have gone over the same ground. (The reader of Weinbrot will find no reference in his index to recent books on Pope by Edwards, Keener, Maresca, Russo, or the present reviewer.) The poem, finally “un-Horatian,” represents...

... unwittingly borrow from or respond to others, about the reverberations of culture and cultural forces. Rawson continues to change our understandings of cultural interplay in the long eighteenth century—and beyond. Reference Weinbrot Howard D. 2013 . “ ‘’Tis Well an Old Age Is Out’: Johnson...

... to be an important writer, they seem to assume, he wisely followed suit. While comparisons with these three writers have yielded some fruitful results, to presume that Field- ing was, in Howard D. Weinbrot’s phrase, their “tag-­along kid brother” is quite another matter.8 Weinbrot rightly challenges...

... History: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982. xxii + 342 pp. $42.00. Thomas, Deborah A. Dickens and the Short Story. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. xii + 196 pp. $18.00. Weinbrot, Howard D. Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire...

... principles for launching its attacks (see, e.g., Sitter 2005 ; Weinbrot 1988 : 192–93). Churchill propounds whimsical opinions whose claims to universality readers cannot but doubt. By contrast, Cowper’s voice is regarded as unique largely because of his attempts to express his religious convictions...

... spe- cial interest, but the omissions here are a bit dismaying; one looks naturally but in vain for such names as Martin Price, Irvin Ehrenpreis, Sheldon Sacks, or Howard Weinbrot. And of the works that are included (and it is a long list) only a minute fraction seem to have affected...

... of “philosemitism” and Anglo-Hebrew connections in the eighteenth century see Howard D. Weinbrot, Britannia’s Issue: The Rise of British Literaturefrom Dry& to Ossian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, igg3), 408-91. Conor Cruise O’Brien surveys the mutations of the “chosen people” concept since...

... York: Barnes 8c Noble, 1977. xix + 239 pp. $22.50. Sircar, Prabirkumar. Milton’s Samson: Studies in Character and Construction. Kaly- ani, West Bengal: University of Kalyani, 1977. xi + 83 pp. Rs. 16.00. Weinbrot, Howard D. Augustus Caesar in “Augustan” England. Princeton: Prince...

... at stable, enabling truths below the tropical surface of eighteenth-cen- tury irony. A problem here, at least with the eighteenthcentury ideals and dispositifs most often used to define the “age,”is that they were all in doubt. The work of Howard Weinbrot and, quite differently, Richard Kroll has...

.... London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. 302 pp. $8.75. Vieth, David M. (editor). Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968. lxix + 256 pp. $10.00; 90s. Weinbrot, Howard D. The Formal Strain: Studies in Augustan...

... Century. East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, Studies in Literature, 1500-1800, 3, 1988. x + 143 pp. $26.00. Weinbrot, Howard D. Eightcenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dtydm to Peler Pindar. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xii + 260...

..., Shakespeare, and Milton (see Kramnick 1998 ; Lipking 1970 ; Ross 1998 ; Weinbrot 1993 : 114–43). William Wordsworth’s “creed” was that “there were four models whom he must have continually before his eyes—Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare—and the first three were constantly in his hands...

..., masking the first English manifesto of deism as an adulatory letter to Dryden. This argument solves several long-standing problems in the interpretation of Dryden’s poem and in the historiography of early English deism. I wish to thank Christopher Ricks, James Anderson Winn, Howard Weinbrot, Phillip...

..., but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some gen- eral hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he l2 See Howard D. Weinbrot, The Form1 Strain: Studies in Augustan Zmitation and Satire (Chicago and London, 1969). Christopher Spencer in the introduction...

... of a national literature and a national literary canon. See, e.g., Howard D. Weinbrot, Britannia’s Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Making the English Canon: Print-­Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700...