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Philological Quarterly articles from September 1999
This journal covers aspects of medieval European and modern literature and culture. The articles published incorporate physical bibliography, the sociology of knowledge, the history of reading, reception studies and other fields of inquiry.
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Philological Quarterly archives from September 1999
The Art of Beekeeping Meets the Arts of Grammar: A Gloss of "Columcille's Circle".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Folio 15 verso of British Library manuscript Cotton Vitellius E.xviii, an eleventh-century codex written in all likelihood at Winchester, preserves a short item that begins with the words Pis is sancte columcille circul.(1) The diagram and...
Literary Genealogy, Virile Rhetoric, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... In one of the most well-known passages of Inferno, Dante unexpectedly encounters the Florentine magistrate, rhetorician and poet, Brunetto Latini, amongst the sodomites in the innermost ring of the seventh circle of Hell. The poignancy of this...
Radical Royalism: Strategy and Ambivalence in Dryden's Tragicomedies.(John Dryden)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... In the following pages, I want to ask what it might mean to call John Dryden, particularly the Dryden who produces the two-plot tragicomedies, a "radical royalist." Christopher Hill has coined this phrase to describe those Restoration writers...
Fairy Magic and the Female Imagination: Mary Lamb's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... During the period between 1806 and 1809, Mary and Charles Lamb coauthored children's literature for William Godwin's Juvenile Library. Tales from Shakespear, designed for the use of Young Persons was issued in two volumes and "embellished with...
Finding the Modern Frames in Tennyson's Final Classical Poems.(English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... As a young child, Alfred Tennyson received an education in Greek and Latin literature that was unusually rigorous, even by the standards of the early nineteenth century. In the years before he was sent to Louth Grammar School and later to...
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, by Helen Vendler. Harvard U. Press, 1997.
Shakespeare's Sonnets have, for some time, served as a kind of literary proving ground for successive fashions of literary scholarship. Indeed, scholarship of the...