...Scott Elledge Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 COWLEY’S ODE “OF WIT” AND LONGINUS ON THE SUBLIME: A STUDY OF ONE DEFINITION OF THE WORD WIT By SCOTTELLEDGE Inconclusive but numerous parallels between...

.... A. WALTONLITZ Princeton University The Age of Wit, 1650-1750.By D. JUDSON MILBURN.New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1966. 348 pp. $6.95. The dust jacket of The Age of Wit describes the book as a “thorough exploration of the idke-force that dominated English life...

...Philip J. Finkelpearl Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 “WIT” IN FRANCIS BEAUMONT’S POEMS By PHILIPJ. FINKELPEARL It is probably impossible to write a history of Elizabethan drama without quoting Francis Beaumont’s nostalgic...

...C. C. Clarke Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 HUMOR AND WIT IN “CHILDE ROLAND” By C. C. CLARKE “Childe Roland” is not the unequivocally somber tale it is often taken to be. The horrors are retailed with a vigor that stops just short...

...John Sutherland Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 WIT, REASON, VISION, AND AN ESSAY ON MAN By JOHN SUTHERLAND To argue that the Essay on Man is witty, in Pope’s own sense of that term, must seem far less controversial than...

... REVIEWS The Wit of Love: Donne, Carew, Crashaw, Marvell. By LDUIS LA. MARTZ. London and Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 3, 1969. 216 pp. $10.00. The 1Vit of Love is a slim, richly illustrated...

...Hugh H. Grady RHETORIC, WIT, AND ART IN GRACIAN’S AGUDEZA It has been thirty years since Errist Kobert Curtius argued for a radi- cal revision in the prevailing critical estimation of Baltasar Gracihn’s Aguduza y a& du irigerzio. 1...

... attempt, we beguile ourselves and others by trying to push Milton back into traditions which he well knew when to ignore, when to follow, and when to transcend. WILLIAMR. PARKER New York University 77re Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as n Poet...

...Liran Razinsky This essay examines Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones ( Les bienveillantes ) as a project of bearing witness. It turns a critical eye on the role played by the poetics of excess and transgression, on the novel's historical aspects (dates, events, and other details...

... in satire, wit, or sentiment, are briefly but tellingly set down. The manuscript accounts named above depend for their value less on their positive contribution to our knowledge of Burns than for their rounding out the environment of the poet in his social activities and acquainting us with his...

...CHARLES R. FORKER Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 “WIT’S DESCANT ON ANY PLAIN SONG” THE PROSE CHARACTERS OF JOHN WEBSTER By CHARLESR. FORKER Ever since Lamb admired the “innocence-resembling boldness” of Vittoria...

... Wits of the Restoration: An Introduction. By JOHN HAROLDWILSON. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948. Pp. x + 264. $4.00. Every once in a while a scholarly work appears of which we can say, “Now that’s done.” Such a work is Wilson’s Court Wits of the Restoration. Too often works...

...- cate otherwise: that what we witness here is less an instance of perspective and methodology failing the critic and more a case of the critic’s failing her own historical methodology and hermeneutical texts. Like every poet, Milton is a traditionalist; yet what he chooses to represent...

... with lashes all but white” (p. 202) ; Claggart’s voice is silvery and low; the whistles used to pipe the men to witness the punishment of Billy are silver whistles; the moon that shines at midnight as Vere tells the men about Billy’s sentence silvers the white spar-deck (p. 254) as, in the ballad...

... Vicloriatr Nooti: Englisli Literature in. 1850. By CAKLDAWSON. Baltimore and Lon- don: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. sv + 268 pp. $16.00. Readers of Carl Dawson’s other full-lerlgth stlldy (His Fine Wit: A Stull? Thomas Love Peacock) will experience an uneasy feeling of dijci ZIU...

... the whole ensemble of poems with unflagging intelligence, with wit and tact and sensitivity-lies the essen- tial greatness of Martz’s book. Certain chapters, admittedly, do not move beyond the received inter- pretations of Milton’s poems: chapter 16 on Samson Agonistes, for exam- ple...