...Don DeLillo Don DeLillo The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven tennis player, a man in his early twenties interviewer, an older man or woman The tennis player, all in white, falls to his knees at the moment of triumph head thrown back, eyes closed, arms raised, one fist clenched...

...James R. Kincaid Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle . Ousby Ian . Cambridge, Mass. and London : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. x , 194 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 383 though objective...

.... Monro, himself, feared die worst. So with myself do I retire And on my inward stage Bum with a slow ungrateful fire That simmers, but can t rage. In Wahrheit singen, ist ein andrer Hauch. PURDUE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM H. GASS Heaven, Hell, and History: A Survey of Man s Faith in History from Antiquity...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 A REASSESSMENT OF THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL C. N. Stavrou THE REVIVAL of interest in William Blake during the past two decades is an eloquent testimonial to the intrinsic merit and significance of his works and ideas. Careful...

...Bernard Duffey The Artistic Transaction and Essays on Theory of Literature . By Vivas Eliseo . Columbus : The Ohio State University Press . 1963 . Pp. ix , 267 . $6.75 . The Heaven of Invention . By Boas George . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press . 1962 . Pp. x...

...Robert S. Smith Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America 1680-1880 . By Holloway Mark . New York : Library Publishers , 1951 . Pp. 240 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 6n Underground: The Story of a People. By Joseph Tenenbaum. New...

...D. R. Howard Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 HAMLET AND THE CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD D. R. Howard HE CENTRAL struggle in Hamlet is whether Hamlet should I kill the king out of private motives of blood-revenge or await the time when heaven will direct him in an act of public...

... the smashed-window high rise, she was singing blue gospel, and the boys of her life were high, large, and loose riding blind-night reckless to some lush ocean. Heaven is a lot like here, only harder. Higher, deeper, sweeter, more. High on the smog-baked hills, Sweet Jane was coming down. He stuck his wet pink...

... are not specified in any of the tributes. What we get, rather, is a kind of hagiography, a portrait of Hank Williams as a country music saint who has gone peacefully to his just reward? In Hank Williams Meets Jimmie Rodgers, for instance, the Virginia Rounders sing of a great meeting in Heaven between the two...

...). To these names we should probably add Nature (I.ii.i) and Fortune (Il.ii.i68). (We should note that the play includes Fairies [IV.vi.29] as having powers comparable to those of the gods.) Not sur­ prisingly the term heaven (or the heavens ) seems to be synonymous with the gods (III.vii.107; II.iv.266...

... was writing in the late eighties and early nineties: The Book of Thel, The French Revolution, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion.2 Mr. Halloran, associate dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has written on Blake, Yeats...

... an arduous journey during which he would have to meet and conquer a number of challenges a traditional way of the soul common to much folk and hero literature Oliver journeys to his heaven on the backs of others. Acted upon rather than acting, Oliver the symbol of the Good survives primarily because...

... began to fly. Just as naive and yet interesting as this Assyrian legend of Etana, who attempted to fly to heaven on the wings of a great eagle, are the tales to be found in the great Indian heroic epic, the Ramayana, composed about 500 B.C. Here we read about the flying contest staged by the two birdmen...

... as a scroll, John heard a voice as the voice of many waters, and saw strange marvels: a woman clothed with the sun, a sea of glass mingled with fire, and a city that lieth foursquare, walled with jasper and coming down from God out of heaven. Under some such guise must the mystic always try to suggest...

... is killed in an ambush the Demon begins to tempt her and to promise her rewards of every kind. To escape tempta­ tion, the girl retires to a convent, but even here the Demon fol­ lows her. He hopes by her love to win back heaven, to recover all that he had lost. He hopes again to be as he was when, a bright...

... of the East. A hymn to the sun from ancient Egypt lauds its influence throughout all life, veritably the divine. There is here no mere poetizing, but true religion in true literature. Thou appearest resplendent on the horizon of the heavens, thou living sun, who was the first to live. Thou art beautiful...

... unintentional patronage. Her family are not, perhaps, quite all they should be. Her dress, charm­ ing, delightful, appropriate, but is it a little startling for a country town, that black velvet hat with an ostrich plume, fit to amaze earth and heaven, as a neighbor puts it ? But we do so want to be friendly...

...] is a saint s picture without miracles, and Rossellini seems not to have emphasized too much the stigmata and the enchantment of the birds in his Flowers of St. Francis [1950].5 Also made last year in Italy, Heaven Over the Marshes [1949] tells the story of little Maria Goretti, who was canonized soon after...

... its hold on mankind. The Christian religion had been an antidote to pessimism and nihilism ; it provided metaphysical comforts in the form of a compensatory heaven and a purpose and pattern for living. Reason and science undermined the faith which made this pattern possible. The loss was not felt...

... that must relate to the elation with which he envisioned a new world arising after the destruction of the old. The first sentence of the third stanza does indeed advert to precisely that Johannine motif of the birth of a new heaven and a new earth: This island is heaven. So the peace of John parallels...