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The Selected Letters of John Berryman, edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Daniel Swift
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Poetry & Money: A Speculation. By Peter Robinson Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Adrian Grafe
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Dweller in the Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney. By Kate Kennedy Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jeffrey Meyers
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Tristram Shandy, edited by Judith Hawley Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Amit S Yahav
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‘Mr Eliot somewhere says’: The ‘affectation of unaffectedness’ in Seven Types of Ambiguity Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Haffenden J.
WILLIAM EMPSON TENDED to become assertively defensive when accused of making scholarly errors – particularly slips of transcription – in his critical writings, especially when readers accused him of misgiving a text to suit a point of interpretation. Ironically, faced with the charge that he was a sloppy copyist, he tried, now and then, to defend his readings on the grounds that the text he was ‘copying
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Translation in Love’s Labour’s Lost Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Alessandra Petrina
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE did not invent translation, but it woke with a special keenness to the consciousness of the act of translation and its cultural implications. The period was marked by a wealth of cultural encounters, as shown both by the works and by the libraries of Elizabethan intellectuals. Warren Boutcher, describing John Florio’s library, comments:
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Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels. Edited by R.H. Winnick Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Kramer E.
Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels. Edited by WinnickR.H.. Open Book, 2019; available to read and download for free on the publisher’s website.
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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–1973. By Robert Lowell. Edited by Saskia Hamilton; The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle. Edited by Saskia Hamilton Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Autrey M.
The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–1973. By LowellRobert. Edited by HamiltonSaskia. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Faber, 2019. £11.99 ($18).
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Shakespeare’s Love-Triangle Poems Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Eklund C.
THE CHARM AND AUDACITY of Pierre de Ronsard’s ‘Quand vous serez bien vieille’ (‘When you are truly old’) turns on the speaking of the poet’s own name when, in a glimpse into the future, he has his aged beloved look back upon her youth and lament, ‘Ronsard me célébrait du temps que j’étais belle’ (‘Ronsard celebrated me in the days when I was beautiful’). The beloved’s name regularly graces the Renaissance
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Word and Picture in Walter Scott Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Fermanis P.
IN THE INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE to The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), the sign-painter turned portrait-painter Dick Tinto accuses his friend Peter Pattieson, the fictional author of the novel, of overusing dialogue or, as Tinto more colloquially puts it, ‘the gob box’, as a means of representing character in his novels (BL, 21).11 Mounting a heated defence of the classical idea ut pictura poesis, Tinto
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Jane Austen’s Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel’s Growth. By Anne Toner Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Anna Razumnaya
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Poetry and Diffidence: A Brief History Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Christopher Ohge
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If Not Critical. By Eric Griffiths. Edited by Freya Johnston Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Edward Allen
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Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jason Harding
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THE HAWKS AND THE DOVES: Raptors and Rapture in the Poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Simon Armitage
SO, NOBLEMEN AND NOBLEWOMEN HAVE DINED on strange stews and exotic fowl, including swan and young heron, when after the third course the doors of the hall open, and in rides a mysterious knight on an extraordinary horse. It could be the inciting incident in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or the event by which escapade and adventure are triggered in several Arthurian narratives. Except the steed this
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‘Sans “sans” I pray you’: A Serious Shakespearian Joke Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Sokol B.
SHAKESPEARE’S WITTY LADY ROSALINE produces a self-reflexive joke intended to be shared with her admirer Biron as well as with Shakespeare’s audiences when she pronounces her admonition ‘Sans “sans” I pray you’, thus prohibiting uses of the French word ‘sans’ by using that very same word, ‘sans’.11 Up to this point in the play, Rosaline and her friends have flouted and disrupted the wooing efforts of
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Melodrama and Cosmopolitanism in The Trumpet-Major Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 JING YU
IN OCTOBER 1865 A YOUNG THOMAS HARDY, working as an architect with the firm of Blomfield in London, wrote enthusiastically to his sister Mary about attending Lord Palmerston’s funeral:
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Shakespeare’s Academy Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 KEILEN S.
NINETY YEARS AGO, JOHN DOVER WILSON made Love’s Labour’s Lost a mirror for his and my profession. Writing about the figure of the schoolmaster, he expressed relief that ‘There are no professors in this play’, because – in his opinion – Shakespeare ‘found something in those who lived by the instruction of youth which he disliked … something which he could not bring himself to forgive’. More, the difference
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THE EDITORIAL IMAGINATION VII The New Conrad: A Reply to Cedric Watts, ‘Conrad in the Cambridge Edition’ Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Paul Eggert
‘He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense… . Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.’ (Joseph Conrad, ‘A Familiar Preface’, 1911)11
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THE EDITORIAL IMAGINATION VIII Theobald Restored Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Jacob Ridley
LAST YEAR MARKED THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of Brean Hammond’s edition of Double Falsehood for the Arden Shakespeare, which galvanised the debate over Shakespeare’s lost play Cardenio to a new pitch of controversy.11 One of the rare points of consensus in this debate was that Lewis Theobald, at any rate, would have been pleased. Even one of the firmest sceptics of the play’s Shakespearian credentials, Tiffany
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Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels. Edited by R. H. Winnick Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Emily Kramer
Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels. Edited by WinnickR. H.. Open Book Publishers, 2019; available to download for free from the publisher’s website.
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A History of Ambiguity. By Anthony Ossa-Richardson Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Everest J.
A History of Ambiguity. By Ossa-RichardsonAnthony. Princeton University Press, 2019; £42.
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Finding Dickens Serious Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Sell R.
AT LEAST IN ONE KEY RESPECT, DICKENS’S self-presentation was as contemporary readers would have wanted. Victorian readers were not really sure that a novelist’s profile was improved by exhibiting Victorian kinds of seriousness. Even though Dickens was labelled by Trollope as a radical, even though he might have seemed Utilitarian enough in showing the ‘captain of industry’ Mr Rouncewell facing up to
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On the Parenthesis in T. S. Eliot’s The Cultivation of Christmas Trees Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Budziak A.
THE CULTIVATION OF CHRISTMAS TREES, T. S. Eliot’s contribution to the second series of the Faber & Faber Christmas pamphlets, was published in October 1954 in New York and London. The American pamphlet was decorated with an early design by Enrico Arno; the British edition was illustrated by David Jones, the poet of In Parenthesis (1937) and The Anathemata (1952), and Eliot’s friend. Alluding to Christian
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Ralph Cohen and the Principles of Genre Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Prince M.
THE CONCEPT OF GENRE has had great staying power. Aristotle’s method of describing the origin, achievement, and decline of forms in his Poetics retains its force. Open any recent textbook for college composition; consult new work in rhetoric, media, and gender studies; observe the confusion that arises when the digital humanities pursues big data without a theory of classification: today, genre is
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Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By Nicholas A. Basbanes Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Iyengar S.
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By BasbanesNicholas A. Knopf, 2020; £22.40.
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On Translating Virgil: A Response Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Ferry D.
THIS IS WHAT A. M. JUSTER, in a review in the Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2018), had to say about my translation of Virgil’s Aeneid:11
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Russomania. Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922. By Rebecca Beasley Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 G S Smith
Russomania. Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922. By BeasleyRebecca. Oxford University Press, 2020; $105.
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Dispossession in The Death of the Heart Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Kirsten Daly
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Plath, Hughes, and Amy Lowell: Relations and Reflections Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Hannah Roche
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Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1815-1845. by Tim Fulford Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Steven Stryer
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Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited. by Philip Eade; Evelyn Waugh: The Writer and His Work. by Ann Pasternak Slater Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Jason Harding
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Sure of One Thing: The Sense of an Ending Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Michael Wood
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The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830. By David Taylor Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-24 Olivia Ferguson
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Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence: New Relations. By Michael O’Neill Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-05-24 Bysshe Inigo Coffey
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T. S. Eliot and Organicism. By Jeremy Diaper Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Frances Dickey
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Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Anne Toner
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Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan. By Grace E. Lavery Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-27 Jonathan Han
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Rethinking the ‘Good Receipt’ in All’s Well That Ends Well Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Sachini K Seneviratne
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Macbeth and the Tragedy of Wonder Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Robert B Pierce
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For and Against Modernisation: Reflections on the Longman Annotated English Poets Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Paul Hammond
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Polymetry and Metaphysics in F. T. Prince Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 Andrew Wynn Owen
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One White Crow (Attributed to Henry James) Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 L A Nemrow
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On Works and DaysWorks and Days. By Hesiod Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 George Kalogeris
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A Kind of LifeIan Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic. By Marina Mackay Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Freya Johnston
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Representing Dementia in Wordsworth’s Late Memorials Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Tim Fulford
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Humanism’s Prodigal SonFrom Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics. By Quentin Skinner Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Stuart Middleton
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Others’ WordsWhy Bob Dylan Matters. By Richard F. Thomas Essays in Criticism (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 James O’Brien