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.19) 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)59) Though sixteen years have passed since the English publication of Wolfgang […]
Tom Jones and the ‘Clare-obscure’: A Response to Andrew Varney, Bernard Harrison, and Lothar Černý Mark Loveridge Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Connotations 3.2 sees an intriguing juxtaposition of two articles. In one, Bernard Harrison suggests that a major merit of Fielding’s Tom Jones is that it takes issue […]
A Response to Debra Fried Judith Dundas Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Debra Fried has nicely supplemented what I said in my article. As a matter of fact, I have since explored a little more fully the idea that in The Temple Herbert followed the old “etymological” rule that […]
Imagining Voices in A View of the Present State of Ireland: A Discussion of Recent Studies Concerning Edmund Spenser’s Dialogue John M. Breen Published in Connotations Vol. 4.1-2 (1994/95) Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 14 April, 1598.122) Permission […]
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