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Beowulf 1741a: we[double dagger] ... and the supplementary evidence.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Hall, J.R. ... Hrothgar's homily (lines 1700-84) includes both praise and warning for Beowulf, fresh from defeating Grendel's dam. To alert Beowulf to the danger of pride, Hrothgar portrays a ruler long favored by fortune who becomes high-handed and mean-spirited. Lines 1740-42a describe the transition: ...
A hawk from a handsaw: a note on the beasts of "The Battle of Brunanburh".(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Herring, Scott ... The entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle called "The Battle of Brunanburh," which celebrates the victory won by Athelstan and Edmund over the Vikings and their allies in 937, includes the following grisly picture of the battlefield after the fighting has ended: <Pre>60 Leton him ...
David Mallet and Barton Booth: a new letter.
Jan 01, 2008; Jung, Sandro ... From the late 1720s, David Mallet showed in interest in the theater, and in 1731, his first tragedy, Eurydice, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre and received enthusiastically. This tragedy was followed by another, Mustapha, eight years later. His early London patron, Aaron Hill, a ...
Quicksilver ladies, odes to turds, and three-seater privies: the scatological underside of the Gentleman's Magazine.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; de Montluzin, Emily Lorraine ... The Gentleman's Magazine (hereafter GM), during the editorial regime of its first conductor, Edward Cave, 1731-54, enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for its encouragement of original poetry. The verses that stocked its pages were mainly the product of amateurs writing for the pleasure of ...
Keats, Hood, Dickens, Crones and Little Boys.(John Keats, Thomas Hood and Charles Dickens)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning ... In "The Eve of St. Agnes," Keats presents the encounter of Porphyro and Angela with a simile that widens still further the experiential and temporal gulf between them: <Pre>Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon,While Porphyro upon her face doth look,Like puzzled ...
The June 1877 meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Jan 01, 2008; Sherbo, Arthur ... Former Massachusetts senator Robert C. Winthrop presided at the June 1877 meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the account of the meeting appeared in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. Among other matters, "The President now spoke of the death, ...
Browning's "Home-Thoughts, from the Sea": a warning against hubris.(Robert Browning)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Ober, Warren U. ... <Pre>Home-Thoughts, from the Sea Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;In the dimmest North-east distance dawned Gibraltar grand ...
Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life".(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; O'Gorman, Francis ... Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life" (first published in 1852) gave poignant shape to his conception of human beings as isolated and able to attain self-knowledge no more than on occasions when a "beloved hand" is "laid in ours" (Allott and Allott 290, 1.78). Only then a "man becomes aware ...
Safie/Saphie: Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa and the De Lacey Episode in Frankenstein.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Neff, D.S. ... On 22 May 1795, Mungo Park, a hearty twenty-four-year-old sponsored by Britain's African Association, sailed out of Portsmouth, determined to locate the Niger River and make his way to the fabled city of Timbuktu. (1) Park did not enter Timbuktu on that particular expedition, (2) but he ...
A view from the stockyards: Lorraine Hansberry's allusion to The Jungle in the unfilmed screenplay of A Raisin in the Sun.
Jan 01, 2008; Tritt, Michael ... Lorraine Hansberry's original screenplay of A Raisin in the Sun, which greatly differs from the 1961 movie, (1) was not published until 1992, twenty-seven years after her death. At least 40 percent of the text was new material, greatly adding to the texture and nuance of the original. As ...
Anarchist withdrawal and spiritual redemption in James Joll and Thomas Pynchon.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; O'Bryan, Michael ... Consideration of anarchism is common in scholarship on Thomas Pynchon and for good reason. There are anarchist characters in most of his work, and hostility to bureaucratic organization, as well as hesitance with regard to more traditional social reform movements, are repeated thematic ...
Stahuljak, Zrinka. Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Noirot-Maguire, Corinne ... STAHULJAK, Zrinka. Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005. xii, 242 pp. $65.00 The "fils" is a "fil," the son is a thread: in literature and the arts, this seminal homophony may well be called into ...
Kuskin, William, ed.: Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Sanders, Arnold ... KUSKIN, William, ed. Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History. of English Printing. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2006. xxvii, 394 pp. $33.50 The essays in Caxton's Trace contain the kind of aggressive, theory-informed analysis that indicates that a field of study is searching ...