Essays on English and American Literature, and a Sheaf of Poems: Offered to David Wilkinson on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of English Literature in the University of GroningenJan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde |
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... Dream A.H. MACKINNON , The Augustan Intellectual and Ignoble Savage : Houyhnhym versus Hottentot PETER JAN DE VOOGD , ' The Great Object of Remark ' : 79 11 33535 27 55 Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne ROBERT FRIEND , ' A Sheaf for ...
... Dream A.H. MACKINNON , The Augustan Intellectual and Ignoble Savage : Houyhnhym versus Hottentot PETER JAN DE VOOGD , ' The Great Object of Remark ' : 79 11 33535 27 55 Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne ROBERT FRIEND , ' A Sheaf for ...
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... of a post - Reformation reader of Dame Margaret's volume : the word ' purgat- ory ' has been systematically scratched out , and so have some saints ' feasts in the Kalendar . KENNETH GRAHAM THE TANGIBLE DREAM A Midsummer Night's Dream is ...
... of a post - Reformation reader of Dame Margaret's volume : the word ' purgat- ory ' has been systematically scratched out , and so have some saints ' feasts in the Kalendar . KENNETH GRAHAM THE TANGIBLE DREAM A Midsummer Night's Dream is ...
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... DREAM A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most tempting , and the most contemporary , of Shakespeare's comedies . It can be made to answer most of our modern tastes , as modishly as a Lalique crystal or the latest metatheory of fiction ...
... DREAM A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most tempting , and the most contemporary , of Shakespeare's comedies . It can be made to answer most of our modern tastes , as modishly as a Lalique crystal or the latest metatheory of fiction ...
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... Dream that ' Nature ' , like art , always seems able to sustain its own contradictions and grotesqueries - the ' blots of Nature's hand ' that the fairies seek to avert for the lovers ' children at the end of the play . The tendency of ...
... Dream that ' Nature ' , like art , always seems able to sustain its own contradictions and grotesqueries - the ' blots of Nature's hand ' that the fairies seek to avert for the lovers ' children at the end of the play . The tendency of ...
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... dream of betrayal and of a crawling serpent to find that life is apparently ready to enact her dream . And Bottom , preparing to act an unreal play of tragic love , finds that his theatrical cue , which is a mere simile - ' As true as ...
... dream of betrayal and of a crawling serpent to find that life is apparently ready to enact her dream . And Bottom , preparing to act an unreal play of tragic love , finds that his theatrical cue , which is a mere simile - ' As true as ...
Contents
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ROBERT FRIEND A Sheaf for David Wilkinson | 75 |
Strange Syzygy | 101 |
RICHARD RULAND Kate Chopin and The Awakening | 119 |
JAN VERLEUN Conrads Modernity and Humanity | 131 |
JEREMY HOOKER Master of the Leaping Figures | 141 |
A Tale of Dragons | 151 |
ELIZABETH WALTHEER Geoffrey Hills Critical Nostalgia | 165 |
TJEBBE WESTENDORP How Pleasant to Meet Mr Eliot | 173 |
A Bibliographical Checklist | 192 |
101 | 207 |
165 | 213 |
235 | 219 |
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Page 43 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 167 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied — Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 49 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Page 38 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire. I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moones sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.
Page 173 - How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim And his conversation, so nicely Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But.
Page 47 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon ; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 68 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH.
Page 87 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 87 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 167 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.