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Richard Savage's hag.(Essays)(The Wanderer: A Vision)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In his long poem The Wanderer: A Vision (published in January 1729), Richard Savage introduces what may be characterized as a dramatic personification. The wanderer's suffering is personified as a hag who dramatizes her woes and theatrically commits suicide. She can be read in terms of ...
Bliss Perry, "dubitating" critic of E. A. Robinson.(Essays)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... "What a thought-provoking review of 'Captain Craig' in the Independent. Quite the best thing yet on the subject. But I don't belong to the E. A. Robinson Church, & shall not until he writes some poetry." So wrote Bliss Perry, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the Boston publisher ...
A case of religious mania: Gosse's Father and Son.(Essays)(Edmund Gosse )(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Soren Kierkegaard and Joseph Conrad had the same troubled relations with their fathers, the same filial rebellion that Edmund Gosse described in his brilliant memoir, Father and Son (1907). In his mid-nineteenth-century Journals, Kierkegaard wrote of his parent, a worldly businessman who ...
Coriolanus: the smiling belly and the Parliament Fart.(Essays)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Commenting on the last two syllables of "Coriolanus," the cognomen ex virtute bestowed on the choleric Roman general Caius Martius, Kenneth Burke noted how apt it sounded "[i]n the light of Freudian theories concerning the faecal nature of invective" (96). Subsequent scholarship has ...
Interpreting The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in a contemporary note to Thynne's 1532 edition.(Essays)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... For scholars interested in the reception of Chaucer's texts, reactions written by early individual readers are both rare and informative. An intriguing reader's comment is transcribed into a copy of William Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's collected Works, (1) which is now held by the ...