Who is Speaking in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland? A Response to John Breen Andrew Hadfield Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) In his article on Spenser’s View, John Breen not only presented a perceptive overview of recent critical debate on a notoriously problematic text, but […]
Of Fountains and Foundations: An Elaboration on Åke Bergvall Patrick Grant Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Åke Bergvall offers a careful and interesting assessment of Thomas Starkey’s treatment of freedom in the Dialogue Between Pole and Lupset. Bergvall summarises the main theories by which Starkey was likely influenced, and […]
Herman Melville and Christian Grabbe: A Source for “The Godhead is Broken” Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) The correspondence between Melville and Hawthorne includes a number of remarkable letters, written at the time of the publication of Moby−Dick. One of them contains the following sentences: Whence come […]
Satire and Subversion: Orwell and the Uses of Anti-climax Brendan Wilson Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Orwell criticism has at least a good excuse. The failure to define Orwell’s specifically literary achievement is perhaps even a fortunate fault, in view of the genuine interest of his politics (described by […]
Melting Earth and Leaping Bulls: Shakespeare’s Ovid and Arthur Golding Anthony Brian Taylor Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) Like other Elizabethans, Shakespeare would have known Ovid’s myths from his grammar school study of the poet’s work which primarily centred on the Metamorphoses.37) He would also have been taught a […]
E. K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading Frances M. Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 4.3 (1994/95) As the mysterious glossarist of Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender, E.K. has long been a thorn−in−the−side of Spenserian critics who have bristled over inaccuracies and labeled him pompous and pedantic. While E.K.’s comments have […]
Elizabeth Bishop and a Grammar for the Underclass? Response to Jonathan Ausubel’s “Subjected People in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop” Jacqueline Vaught Brogan Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) When Elizabeth Bishop concludes her well-known poem, “At the Fishhouses,” with the genuinely re-markable line that since “our knowledge is historical,” […]
Owen’s strange “Meeting”: A Note for Professor Muir Jon Silkin Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) After Professor Muir’s gentle note concerning me as a poet and co−editor of Stand what may I say but “thankyou”? Then wherein lie our differences? It is, for instance, not that I don’t love […]
More on “Christmas as Humbug: A Manuscript Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (‘L. E. L.’)” F. J. Sypher Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) In the commentary on Landon’s poem “Christmas,” as published in Connotations 3.2 (1993⁄94), it is stated that the poem “may perhaps have been published somewhere” as […]
If Everything Else Fails, Read the Instructions: Further Echoes of the Reception-Theory Debate Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) “O la! I ask your pardon, I fancy there is hiatus in manuscriptis.” Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (VIII.iii.374)77) Though sixteen years have passed since the English publication of Wolfgang […]
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