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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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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...
Journal Article
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.
I
The view of rhyme which I wish to discuss in this essay has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 1942
...
TJae Prose Style of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT.New
Haven: Yale University Press, 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 1950
...
projects of wider range and more central importance.
LEONARDF. DEAN
University of Connecticut
Philosophic Words: A Study of Style and Meaning in the Ramblcr and Diction-
ary of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT,JR. New Haven : Yale...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 March 1942
.... BOSTETTER
University of Washington
TJae Prose Style of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT.New
Haven: Yale University Press, 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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 362–363.
Published: 01 September 1950
...
University of Connecticut
Philosophic Words: A Study 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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2016
... It is now a commonplace that New Critics such as Cleanth Brooks, I. A. Richards, William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, and Austin Warren and René Wellek posited an opposition between the internal/intrinsic/aesthetic and the external/extrinsic/historical understanding of a poem. Recent attempts...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 120–125.
Published: 01 March 1973
... 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 in Literary
Studies of Saussure’s Concepts...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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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