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Rhyme/Reason, Chaucer/Pope, Icon/Symbol
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 17–46.
Published: 01 March 1994
...James I. Wimsatt Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 James I. Wimsatt is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in Middle English and medieval French literature. His most recent book is Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music...
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One Relation of Rhyme to Reason Alexander Pope
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 September 1944
...W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ONE RELATION OF RHYME TO REASON
ALEXANDER POPE
By W. K. WIMSATT,JR.
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The view of rhyme which I wish to discuss in this essay has...
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Studies in English
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 March 1946
...W. K. Wimsatt, Jr Department of English, University of Texas, 1944. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1945. Pp. 297. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 116 Review
moral law superior to conventional ethics. Indeed it stems strange...
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The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 1942
...J. E. Congleton W.K. Wimsatt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. Pp. xvi + 166. $3.00. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 E. E. Bosfetter 133
expression and mood of these poets, particularly Byron, were strik-
ingly...
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Philosophic Words: A Study of Style and Meaning in the Rambler and Dictionary of Samuel Johnson
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 1950
...Donald A. Stauffer W.K. Wimsatt, Jr.. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. Pp. xvii + 167. $3.75. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Leonard F. Dean 363
however, that some of these historical scholars were...
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Timers, Stressers, and Linguists Contention and Compromise
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 227–239.
Published: 01 September 1972
... is written in English, then
it must have four stresses, because English has four stresses. If it does
not have them, then it is not English.”2 In a sanely conceived and
brilliantly written essay W. K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley
objected, insisted upon keeping separate the concepts...
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Wordsworth's View of Nature and Its Ethical Consequences
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 365–366.
Published: 01 September 1950
...’ distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the
terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas.” In the section on
“Corpuscular Epistemology” Wimsatt makes clear how the metaphysical foun-
dations beneath the thought of Galileo, Newton, Descartes, and preeminently
Locke, led...
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The Rise of Romantic Hellenism in English Literature, 1732–1786
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 March 1942
..., 1941. Pp. xvi + 166. $3.00.
In his “Introduction” Mr. Wimsatt insists that style and mean-
ing are interdependent and proposes to show the effect of Dr. John-
son’s prose style on his meaning. Since the devices which charac-
terize Johnson’s prose are complex structures with fundamental...
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Samuel Johnson and the Origin of Morale A Hypothetical Etymology
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 346–362.
Published: 01 December 1980
... of William Hazlitt, ed. A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover, VIII (London:
Dent; New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903), 102; all quotations of Hazlitt’s work are from this
edition.
5 Quoted by William K. Wimsatt, The Prose Style of Samuel Johnson (New Haven: Yale Uni-
versity Press, 1941), p. 47...
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Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 250–256.
Published: 01 June 1992
... begins. In the
introduction to Learning to Curse, he describes the “trajectory”of his profes-
sional career, from W. K. Wimsatt and formalism to Raymond Williams and
cultural materialism. “I recount this personal history,” he tells us, “precisely
because it is not entirely personal-I...
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Joseph Quincy Adams: Memorial Studies
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 362–363.
Published: 01 September 1950
... of Style and Meaning in the Ramblcr and Diction-
ary of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT,JR. New Haven : Yale University
Press, 1948. Pp. xvii + 167. $3.75.
Recently William Empson’s influential Seven Types of Ambiguity has been
reissued. In his latest book, Professor Wimsatt calls our...
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Chaucer's Book of the Duchess a Non-Boethian Interpretation
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 235–249.
Published: 01 September 1985
... borrowings from
the courtly French poets has been well documented by F. N. Robin-
son, Charles Muscatine, Wolfgang Clemen, James Wimsatt, Bar-
bara Nolan, and others.5 However much certain themes in The Book
of the Duchess may resemble those treated by Boethius-a situation
that may have come...
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Form and History: Reading as an Aesthetic Experience and Historical Act
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2008
...” that provides it with the position in
the past from which it addresses the present. Without this otherness,
the dialogue of interpreting the past becomes a monologue of the pres-
ent with itself.
In their famous warnings against the “Intentional Fallacy,” how-
ever, W. K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C...
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Pope's Idea of the Imagination and the Design of “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 395–406.
Published: 01 December 1968
... and the fate
of all mankind. More to the point is William K. Wimsatt’s reading of
the poem as one of Pope’s “chief expressions in the pathetic and ro-
mantic mode.”6 By remarking Pope’s range of styles, Wimsatt, like
Reuben Brower in his description of the poem’r “lyric sorrow and
high...
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The System Cannot Withstand Close Scrutiny: 1966, the Hopkins Conference, and the Anomalous Rise of Theory
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 327–354.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Press . Brooks Cleanth Wimsatt William K. . 1957 . Literary Criticism: A Short History . New York : Knopf . Brugger Robert . 1988 . Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980 . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Calleo David P. Staal Eric R. , eds...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Historiographical Poetics
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2016
... , and Wimsatt W. K. . 1957 . Literary Criticism: A Short History . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Carlyle Thomas . 1966 . On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History , edited by Niemeyer Carl . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Clark Peter . 1982 . Henry...
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Books Received
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 120–125.
Published: 01 March 1973
...
FESTSCHRIFTEN
Brady, Frank, John Palmer, and Martin Price (editors). Literary Theory and Struc-
ture: Essays in Honor of William K. Wimsatt. New Haven and London: Yale Uni-
versity Press, 1973. viii + 429 pp. $12.50.
Frederick A. Pottle, “Synchrony and Diachrony: A Plea for the Use...
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Paul Claudel the Transcendence of Temporal Flux
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 338–345.
Published: 01 September 1964
... and philosophical factors
underlying this widespread dissatisfaction with traditional temporal
modes. Wimsatt and Brooks, for example, in their Literary Criticism:
A Short History, attribute it in the vaguest of terms to “a reaction to
romantic inspirationalism, a concern for craftsmanship...
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Endymion in England: The Literary History of a Greek Myth
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 March 1946
... the attack on “rationalizing divines”
in the Dunciad and the fondness shared by Pope and Fielding for the
“Cibberian forehead.”
W. I(. WIMSATT,JR.
Yale University
Endymion in England: The Literary History of a Greek Myth. By
EDWALDs. LEC0nn-E. New York...
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Backgrounds of English Literature, 1700–1760
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 374–375.
Published: 01 December 1954
... in the recently pub-
lished studies of Professors Maynard Mack, W. K. Wimsatt, Ian Jack, J. M.
Bullitt, Martin Price, and others. Comparison of this volume with any one of
these later studies offers an interesting measure of how far-whether for better
or worse-the pendulum has swung...
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