...Rita Barnard Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Rita Barnard Dream Topographies: J. M. Coetzee and the South African Pastoral I n his recent edition of essays by and inter­ views with J. M. Coetzee, David Attwell notes that Coetzee s return to South Africa in 1976, and his second...

...James Quinlan Survivals of Pastoral . Edited by Hardin Richard . Humanistic Studies, 52 . Lawrence : University of Kansas Publications , 1979 . Pp. x , 150 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 115 the most important post-atlas theoretical concept...

...Roger Bowen Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 A Version of Pastoral: E. M. Forster as Country Guardian Roger Bowen Forster s two pageant plays, Abinger Pageant (1934) and England s Pleasant Land (1940), express straightforwardly his concern with an England green and eternal 1...

...C. Hugh Holman The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature . By Simpson Lewis P. . Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 16 . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . Pp. xi , 109 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

...James Walter Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A Farewell to Blithedale: Coverdale s Aborted Pastoral James Walter In The Blithedale Romance Hawthorne came closest to achieving the bright transparency of meaning in fact that constituted his highest aim in fiction.1 Although...

...Frank J. Warnke The Uses of Nostalgia: Studies in Pastoral Poetry. By Lerner Laurence . New York : Schocken , 1972 . Pp. 248 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 137 If Mrs. Stewart has not written a conventional biography, she has nonetheless...

...George M. Harper Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Apocalyptic Vision and Pastoral Dream in Blake s Four Zoas George Mills Harper Mr. Harper is chairman of the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The Neoplatonism of William...

...William Henry Irving Theories of Pastoral Poetry in England 1684-1798 . By Congleton J. E. . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1952 . Pp. ix , 355 . Clothbound, $6.00 ; paperbound, $5.00 . Samuel Johnson’s Literary Criticism . By Hagstrum Jean H. . Minneapolis...

...John W. Stevenson THE PASTORAL SETTING IN THE POETRY OF A. E. HOUSMAN* John W. Stevenson AN OBVIOUS comment on Housman is that he wrote in a pastoral vein; it is more difficult to define the nature of his pastoralism and its contribution to the peculiar and singular achieve­ ment of his poetry...

...Alice M. Baldwin Churches of Old New England: Their Architecture and Their Architects, Their Pastors and Their People . By Marlowe George Francis . Illustrated with Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. New York : The Macmillan Company , 1947 . Pp. xii , 222 . $3.75 . Copyright ©...

...Harry R. Stevens Frontier Parsonage: The Letters of Olaus Frederik Duus Norwegian Pastor in Wisconsin, 1855-1838 . Translated by the Vernandi Study Club of Minneapolis and edited by Blegen Theodore C. . Northfield, Minnesota : Norwegian-American Historical Association , 1947 . Pp...

...Alice M. Baldwin Jonathan Fisher: Maine Pastor, 1768-1847 . By Chase Mary Ellen . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xix , 280 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 308 The South Atlantic Quarterly two poetesses were keen-eyed observers...

...Rev. John E. White The Need of a Southern Program on the Negro Problem By Rev. John E. White, Pastor of Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga A year ago it was my privilege to give utterance in The South Atlantic Quarterly to a conviction about some things which are false in Southern life...

...Rev. John E. White Prohibition: The New Task and Opportunity of the South By Rey. John E. White Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia The great Prohibition movement is not suffering for lack of discussion, but it is suffering in some quarters for lack of adequate definition...

...Rev. John E. White, D.D. Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Volume V. APRIL, 1906. Number 2. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The True and the False in Southern Life* By Rev. John E. White, D. D., Pastor of Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. The statement that Abraham Lincoln...

... are the prototype of pastoral poetry. As the word pastoral implies, the poems are ostensibly about shepherds and rustic life, though it is an entirely artificial landscape that they inhabit and fictitious life they lead. The poems consist of the songs, laments, and dialogues of the Arcadian rustics, and are not in­...

... AT CHAPEL HILL DON HIGGINBOTHAM The Uses of Nostalgia: Studies in Pastoral Poetry. By Laurence Lerner. New York: Schocken, 1972. Pp. 248. Professor Lerner s provocative and broad study of the pastoral broader in range than its subtitle indicates begins with a chapter What Is Pastoral? in which he makes...

.... BUTTERS Survivals of Pastoral. Edited by Richard Hardin. Humanistic Studies, 52. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979. Pp. x, 150. Pastoralism has not survived. What remains of the traditional desire to restore a natural perspective on human life is, as the title of this collection...

...Earl E. Thorpb Black New Orleans, 1860–1880 . By Blassingame John W. . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1973 . Pp. vii , 301 . $9.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly Nerval s sonnets, and Arnold s two great pastoral...

... announced in 1827, no [other] country . . . can be found which contains so great a proportion of cultivatable and habitable land. 1 The image of the West as a pastoral paradise became so thoroughly accepted by 1850 that C. W. Dana s widely read Garden of the World, which appeared seven years later, merely...