...Robert F. Nardini Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 H. L. Mencken s Ventures into Verse Robert F. Nardini H. L. Mencken s first book was neither a pathological analysis of the American civilization nor a hymn to the bankruptcy of its polity, mor­ als, or letters; it did not bait...

...Evert Mordecai Clark Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 AN UNPUBLISHED BIT OF JEFFERSONIAN VERSE EVERT MORDECAICLARK The University of Texas UPON the margins of a folio edition of Machiavelli s Works,1 found in Yale University Library, appear various notes and comments of the late...

...Julius W. Pratt Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 The Cumberland Mountains in Verse Julius W. Pratt United States Naval Academy We have long been accustomed to look to the novelists, and particularly, in this country, to the short story writers, for the portrayal and analysis...

...Julius W. Pratt Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Creation and Comment: Some Recent Verse* Julius W. Pratt United States Naval Academy Readers familiar with recent tendencies in America poetry are aware of two almost opposite lines of development. On the one hand is an extreme...

...Alfred Allan Kern Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Unpublished Verse of Irwin Russell Alfred Allan Kern Millsaps College Mr. Francis Wilson in his entertaining biography of the most beloved American actor, Joseph Jefferson, tells this incident: Jefferson gave Crane and me...

...Wightman F. Melton Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Accidental Rimes and Jingles in Blank Verse. Wightman F. Melton Professor of English in Emory College In blank verse rime is not expected. As Symonds says, Our ears are satisfied without it, and yet the ear is probably more...

...J. M. Armistead Poetry of Civilization: Mythopoeic Displacement in the Verse of Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson . By Budick Sanford . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1974 . Pp. xv , 179 . $9.75 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 521...

...George M. Harper Vision and Verse in William Blake . By Ostriker Alicia . Madison and Milwaukee : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1965 . Pp. x , 224 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly sipated on an issue which could...

...H. Houston Peckham Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 Some Recent Southern Verse* H. Houston Peckham Instructor in English in Purdue University The South is contributing its quota nowadays to the output of verse. This is shown by the appearance, within a twelvemonth, of such works...

... ticularly persuasive; it serves more to close the book than to conclude it. Yet it hardly matters because the biographical chapters themselves are too interesting to be diminished by a weak finale. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY RICHARD W. BULLIET The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse. Chosen by Geoffrey Grigson. Oxford...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Martial Books and Tudor Verse . By Langsam G. Geoffrey . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1951 . Pp. 213 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 340 The South Atlantic Quarterly conflicting reinterpretions and unimaginable finesses, until...

...Hal Draper Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The Art of Re-Creation In Defense of Verse Translation Hal Draper English translations of foreign poetry are neither inconsiderable in bulk nor inconsequential in influence; yet critical literature is re­ markably meager on the subject...

.... xiii , 251 . $4.50 . The Occasional Verse of Richard Steele . Edited by Blanchard Rae . Oxford : The Clarendon Press , 1952 . Pp. xxiv , 137 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 473 seem rather evanescent to those who have been indoctrinated...

...P. F. Baum Early English Christian Poetry: Translated into Alliterative Verse . By Kennedy Charles W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1952 . Pp. ix , 292 . $3.50 . Chaucerian Essays . By Gerould Gordon Hall . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1952 . Pp...

...Mary Hall Leonard Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 Walt Whitman to His Followers Mary Hall Leonard What is it you bring my America? Does it answer universal needs? Will it improve manners? Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman was not the first poet to write in free verse. In 1760...

.... viii, 411. $5.00. The present work is an exploration into the nature of verse tragedy. Specifically, it attempts to discover the relationship between the language of plays written in verse and the dramatic nature of the form. . . . The method employed is based in part on a study of the diction...

... theory has purported to be one of a musical accent and a quantitative rhythm, and yet down all the ages scholars have had to recognize the controlling power of stress in both Latin speech and Latin verse. But even as a theory of stress accent it has involved the stultification of all 2 Has winter...

... has it lost its human qualities nor its folk appeal while meeting the critics tests. Rather, it is the synthesis of the fitness of the mode and the potency and genuineness of appeal that places this verse high in the evaluations of discriminating critics. Contemporaneous criticism can never be final...

... verse to seventeen. Ian Serraillier s (1954) is not strictly speaking a translation, but a retelling. Although certain suggestions in the original have been expanded, in general the plan followed has been to eliminate the historical and mythological references (the Finn Episode is omitted...

... run-on lines than Pope in his couplets fewer than any other writer of blank verse I know of; and in his later plays he carried the use of feminine end­ ings to practically the percentage adopted by 18th and 19th cen­ tury writers of plays in blank verse, but some thirty percent be­ yond that of most...