Philological Quarterly articles from June 1993

Philological Quarterly archives from June 1993

The decorum of 'Beowulf.'
June 22, 1993... John Gardner suggested interpreting Beowulf in terms of "that commonplace of medieval thought" which identified the three qualities of the tripartite soul with the three ages of life, as in the fourteenth-century Parliament of the Three Ages,...

The poet of labor: authorship and property in the work of Ben Jonson.
June 22, 1993... I want to start by revisiting a traditional distinction between Shakespeare, the poet of nature who never blotted a line, and Jonson, who blotted so many that he became famous for slow and laborious composition. I would rediscover this...

Erasmus and Bernard Mandeville: a reconsideration.
June 22, 1993... In Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1711), the controversial Dutch Humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) is made to symbolize the rebirth of learning following the gothic darkness of the medieval era: At length, Erasmus, that...

Goethe, the Apostles, and Tennyson's supposed confessions. ('Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind')
June 22, 1993... Ian H. C. Kennedy was the first to point out that the original title of Tennyson's Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind, which added the information that the mind was "not in union with itself," included a quotation from...

'The House of Mirth' and Edith Wharton's "Beyond!"
June 22, 1993... 1 In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, the heroine Lily Bart is prohibited from the self-invention she seeks by socially-constructed conceptions of who she must be. Lily is imprisoned in a projection of male desire, fantasized...

A History of Old English Meter.
June 22, 1993... By R. D. Fulk. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 466. Once upon a time, we thought we knew quite a bit about the chronology of the surviving poetry of Anglo-saxon England and about the regional dialects in which the poems were...