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...William S. Newman The Bachs—1500–1850 . By Young Percy M. . New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co. , 1970 . Pp. [ xiv ], 341 ; illustrations, music examples, four appendices, bibliography, index. $10.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 434 The South Atlantic...

...Richard Harter Fogle Percy Bysshe Shelley . By Reiman Donald H. . New York : Twayne Publishers, Inc. , 1969 . Pp. 188 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 548 The South Atlantic Quarterly spontaneous judgment; objective truth vs. the author s manipulation...

...Lewis Leary Portrait of Edith Wharton . By Lubbock Percy . New York and London : D. Appleton-Century and Company, Inc. , 1947 . Pp. vi , 249 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 585 during the summer of 1913 and 14, the entertainments grew...

...Donald H. Reiman The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley . By Jones Frederick L. . Two vols. New York : Oxford University Press (Clarendon) , 1964 . Pp. xxxvi , 600 ; xiv , 524 . $23.55 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 BOOKS The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley...

...John M. Bradbury Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Absurd Insurrection The Barth-Percy Affair John M. Bradbury The American South is no stranger to cultural, any more than to social, upheavals. In the literary field, that broad insurrection known as the Southern Renaissance...

...William Henry Irving The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Edmond Málone . Edited by Tillotson Arthur . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1944 . Pp. xvii , 302 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Books 235 liberal, Karl Heinzen, an exiled...

...Charles Richard Sanders A Romantic View of Poetry. Being Lectures Given at the Johns Hopkins University on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in November, 1941 . By Beach Joseph Warren . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1944 . Pp. 133 . $2.00 . Beginning...

...Morris Golden Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel . By Adams Percy G. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1983 . Pp. xi , 368 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 442 The South Atlantic Quarterly University of South Carolina...

...Bernard Duffey The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy’s Diagnosis of the Disease . By Luschei Martin . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1972 . Pp. viii , 261 , bibliography, index. $10.00 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Book Reviews 275...

... of the Tyler administration and its apologists. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO RICHARD N. CURRENT The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy s Diagnosis of the Disease. By Martin Luschei. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 261, bibliography, index. $10.00. Although Walker...

... possible by the liberality and generosity of James Lewes Smithson, a young Englishman, who spent most of his life in Paris and none in America. James Lewes Smithson was the son of Elizabeth Macie, a widow. His father was Sir Hugh Smithson descendant of the fiery Percies. This Sir Hugh Smithson was a man...

... possible by the liberality and generosity of James Lewes Smithson, a young Englishman, who spent most of his life in Paris and none in America. James Lewes Smithson was the son of Elizabeth Macie, a widow. His father was Sir Hugh Smithson descendant of the fiery Percies. This Sir Hugh Smithson was a man...

... the current, but it is upstream that one finds the source, and the clearer, fresher water. Dieter Cunz. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Edmond MAlone. Edited by Arthur Tillotson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univer­ sity Press, 1944. Pp. xvii, 302. $3.50. The projected edition of Bishop Percy s...

... men of the hills and piney woods. Leroy Percy, the Delta planter-lawyer, called his hecklers cattle and rednecks, and James K. Vardaman answered by riding behind oxen and attiring his followers in red neckties. The planters and the corporation lawyers reigned as long as Democratic nominations were...

... of voice. This elaborate and elegant edition is altogether appropri­ ate for the work of which Pope said, I never took more care in my life of any [other] poem. The sixth volume of The Percy Letters (ed. by A. F. Falconer, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1961, $6.00) is devoted to the ex­ change...

... to discharge its con­ tents. The Shakespeare editor Edmond Malone set him down as shallow and stupid, a palpable blockhead. Clubmate Samuel Dyer is said to have called him mischievous, uncharitable, and malignant, and some years after Hawkins death (accord­ ing to Malone) Bishop Thomas Percy pronounced him...

...); and Louis Cochran, Hallelujah, Mississippi (1955). At their best, these books illuminate the conflict that often at­ tended the impact of social change upon traditional values. Thus William Alexander Percy, in Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter s Son (1941), has written a poignant account...

... to describe the language of the American South, but rather to pay special tribute (3) to it. This he does by showing how various Southern writers, from antebellum Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to contemporary Walker Percy, have acknowledged the importance of the spoken word in the Southern tradition and have...

..., as readers understood, though comic by intention, were meaningful enough. Thus the Lion was a conventionalized heraldic symbol for several generations of Scottish Kings. The Dragon, derived from the ensign of Cadwalader, could stand for any Welsh prince. The Moon was used for the leader of the Percies...

... role was to smite the false prophets who were busily building a profane temple. Field Place, the home of Sir Percy and Lady Shelley, seemed to him to be the seminary of Shelleyolatry; and his whole book is a reaction not only against what Field Place had done to falsify Shelley, but what...