Notes and Queries articles from June 1994

Notes and Queries archives from June 1994

Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English.
June 1, 1994... AS A. McIntosh says in the first sentence of his preface to this volume, |A comprehensive inventory of the source material available for the study of Early Middle English has long been needed by all those seeking to add to what is known about...

Concordance to 'Ancrene Wisse' MS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402.
June 1, 1994... COMPUTER concordances are one of technology's great benefactions to literary studies of our age. They can be executed with care and thought or purely mechanically. The book under review, Potts, J., Sevenson, L., Wogan-Browne, J. (eds),...

Sir John Mandeville.
June 1, 1994... M. C. SEYMOUR'S Sir John Mandeville Aldershot: Variorum, 1993) inaugurates a new series cumbersomely titled, Authors of the Middle Ages. English Writers of the Late Middle Ages. The aim of the series is to combine biographical and...

Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (BBB), Band 10.
June 1, 1994... WE noticed the first volume in this series in June 1983 (ccxxviii, 194), and Dr Meyer has continued to put the students of book-trade history in his debt by his indefatigable labours in the preparation and production of ten more volumes...

A Preface to Hardy, 2d ed.
June 1, 1994... NEW editions have recently appeared of two volumes in Longman's useful |Preface Books' series of introductory guides: Merryn Williams's A Preface to Hardy [Pp. xiii + 200. Paperbound 10.991[pounds] and Cedric Watts's A Preface to Conrad [Pp....

A Preface to Conrad, 2d ed.
June 1, 1994... NEW editions have recently appeared of two volumes in Longman's useful |Preface Books' series of introductory guides: Merryn Williams's A Preface to Hardy [Pp. xiii + 200. Paperbound 10.991[pounds] and Cedric Watts's A Preface to Conrad [Pp....

Beowulf 1495: hwil daeges = momentum temporis?
June 1, 1994... WHEN Beowulf dives into Grendel's mere, the narrator tells us that it took him hwil daeges before he could catch sight of its bottom: Da waes hwil daeges, aer he pone grundwong ongytan mehte (1495b-6).(1) The amount of...

The remedies in British Library MS Cotton Galba A.xiv, fos 139 and 136r.
June 1, 1994... BRITISH LIBRARY MS Cotton Galba A.xiv is a manuscript of the eleventh century; Ker dates the major part of the writing as s. [xi.sup.I],(1) and Muir argues that it was prepared, as a blank book, for use during the period 1029-47;(2) it is...

Another Middle English verse rendering of Job 14:1-2.
June 1, 1994... ATTENTION has been drawn in this journal to the verse rendering of Job 14:1-2 found in the Fasciculus Morum and in Bodleian MS Barlow 24,(1) and to the comment of Seigfried Wenzel that |no other verse rendering in English is known'.(2) In...

Middle English 'Cammede' 'bow-legged' in 'Swarte Smekyd Smethes.'
June 1, 1994... SWARTE SMEKYD SMETHES is an alliterative satire on smiths, written in south-east Midland dialect of the early fourteenth century.(1) It contains a crux in its fifth line, The cammede kongons cryen after |col, col!' Tolkien took cammede as...

A seventeenth-century English manuscript of the 'Gospel of Nicodemus' in Royal Library of Stockholm, MS Huseby 71.
June 1, 1994... THE text which has come to be known as the Gospel of Nicodemus -- an account of the trial and crucifixion of Christ, the imprisonment and release of Joseph of Arimathea, and the harrowing of hell -- enjoyed, in its different versions, a...

'Silent airs': a musical pun in George Herbert's 'Deniall.'
June 1, 1994... THE wittiness of George Herbert never ceases to amaze. Twentieth-century critics have uncovered layer upon layer of significant playfulness in his works and demonstrated the interdependence of his seriousness and his ingenuity. In a single...

Fane on Jonson and Shakespeare. (Mildmay Fane's poem on Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare)
June 1, 1994... A COPY of Ben Jonson's 1616 Workes presently held at Yale University's Beinecke Library (shelf mark 1977 / +422) contains two poems on Jonson, both presumably written by Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland. One of the poems is frequently...

A 'lost' transcription from Sir William Dugdale.
June 1, 1994... SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE (1605-86), Garter king-of-arms, was a careful and scholarly antiquary who gave the following warning to Sir Simon Archer in a letter dated 15 May 1638: to depend on any mens collections or transcripts without...

Note on John Swan: the authorship of 'Speculum Mundi' and other works attributed to him.
June 1, 1994... THERE is some confusion as to books attributed to John Swann in The British Library Catalogue, Lowndes: The Bibliographer's Manual (1864), the Short Title Catalogue, 1425-1640,(1) and Wing.(2) The attribution of all these works to the John...

Milton and Constable. (John Milton and Henry Constable)
June 1, 1994... AMONG the various poems thought of as going to the making of Milton's sonnet |Methought I saw', perhaps should be included the Spirituall Sonettes of Henry Constable (1562-1613, best-known for his love-sonnet sequence, Diana), described as...

An echo of Joannes Secundus in Milton's 'Elegia Tertia.' (John Milton)
June 1, 1994... IN his brief article |Milton and Neaera's Hair' (N&Q, cci (1956), 190-1), R.J. Schoeck suggests that the Neaera mentioned in line 69 of |Lycidas' (|Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair') is based on the Neaera to whom the Dutch poet Joannes...

On Milton's use of the noun wind-egg. (John Milton)
June 1, 1994... SCHOLARS have had little or nothing to say about the unusual noun |wind-egg' which occurs but twice in Milton's works. Concerning its first appearance in the Colasterion, |rom such a wind-egg of definiton as this, they who expect any of his...

The phrase 'Nerone Neronior' in Walter of Chatillon, John Milton, and John Adams.
June 1, 1994... IN 1980 L. M. Kaiser traced the source of this |most vivid Latin phrase' found in a letter written by John Adams to James Warren during 1776 back to the medieval poet Walter of Chatillon (c. 1135-c. 1200).(1) Kaiser noted in regard to the...

Marvell, Villiers, and Royalist verse. (Andrew Marvell, Lord Francis Villiers)
June 1, 1994... THE debate over the political affiliations of the young Marvell still lacks resolution. There is perhaps less doubt over the political inclination of |An Horatian Ode' than there was ten years ago, before the critical efforts of Blair Worden...

An allusion to Milton in 'The Transproser Rehears'd' (1673). (John Milton)
June 1, 1994... IN replying to Andrew Marvell's The Rehearsal Transpros'd (1672), the anonymous author of The Transproser Rehears'd (1673) sought to exploit Marvell's known friendship with Milton.(1) The aim was to tar the MP for Hull with the same brush as...

Rochester's 'Fling this useless book away': an unlisted manuscript copy. (a manuscript of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's poem)
June 1, 1994... J. H. WILSON drew the attention of modern scholars to this previously overlooked poem when he noted that it was printed, apparently for the first time, in Familiar Letters (1697).(1) In a letter of Tom Brown's in this volume, the poem is...

Two allusions in Dryden's portrait of Corah. (John Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel')
June 1, 1994... TOWARDS the beginning of his description of Corah in Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden characterizes the witness with two crucial biblical references: Yet. Corah, thou shalt from Oblivion pass; Erect thy self thou Monumental Brass: High as...

Aphra Behn's reflections on morality, or, Seneca unmasqued.
June 1, 1994... ALTHOUGH three articles have dealt with the translations of the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld,(1) there seem to be persistent errors as to the attribution of the first translation(2) and the description of the original edition used by Aphra...

Aphra Behn and John Hoyle: a contemporary mention, and Sir Charles Sedley's poem on his death.
June 1, 1994... ONE potential source of argument in the biography of Aphra Behn is that our knowledge of several of her most important personal relationships, especially that with the bisexual lawyer and wit John Hoyle, depends mainly on the identification...

An unpublished 'character' by Matthew Prior.
June 1, 1994... AMONG the literary forms occasionally attempted by the ever versatile Matthew Prior was the prose |character'. Three examples of character-writing, |A Coxcomb', |Shylon', and |Montus', have been published in the commentary to the Clarendon...

Mary Pix's nebulous relationship to 'Zelmane.'
June 1, 1994... CONTRARY to what recent critics have suggested, there is very little textual evidence that Mary Pix wrote Zelmane or The Corinthian Queen (1705). The historical cause for such confusion comes from a citation in The Diverting Post, 28 October...

Pope's 'fox obscene': some precursors and some successors.
June 1, 1994... PROFESSOR GEOFFREY TILLOTSON, in his Augustan Poetic Diction (1964), anxious to redress the balance between the Augustan poet's awareness that, as he puts it, 'the pastoral was a deception' and his perception of the realities of the world...

The lascivious nightingale: mild impropriety in The Spectator.
June 1, 1994... INTRODUCING his edition of The Spectator Donald F. Bond describes how the periodical appeared as |a wholesome antidote against the immoral and the irreverent which could safely be taken by persons of either sex and any age.'(1) In the middle...

Teachers of John Baskerville: John Dougharty the Elder (1677-1755) and John Doharty the Younger (c. 1707-a. 1763).
June 1, 1994... IN his study of John Baskerville, William Bennett asserted that the great printer |created mystery in regard to his early life', a period over which he was |so reticent of information... that it almost amounted to secretiveness'.(1)...

The coats in section II of Swift's 'Tale of a Tub.' (Jonathan Swift)
June 1, 1994... IN A Tale of a Tub, the Father gives his three sons new coats and |full Instructions' in his will for the wearing and keeping of these coats.(1) Clearly, the |will' is to be understood and has been generally accepted as representing the...

Literary and Biblical allusions in Swift's correspondence. (Jonathan Swift)
June 1, 1994... THE aim of this note is to complement an earlier listing of |Allusions in Pope's Correspondence' (N&Q, ccxxviii.36-8). The quotations which follow are not identified in The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford,...

Swift's use of 'personate' to indicate parody. (Jonathan Swift)
June 1, 1994... SWIFT was an habitual parodist: numerous works in both prose and verse testify to his deftness in the parodying of voices and mentalities. This note throws a side-light on his practice as a parodist by scrutinizing his usage of the word...

'The Vanity of Human Wishes.' (Samuel Johnson's poem)
June 1, 1994... JOHNSON's use of the phrase |China to Peru' to represent |mankind' in the opening couplet of The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) was, it seems, in keeping with a tradition. Thomas Warton, the elder, had in his Of the Universal Love of Pleasure...

Johnson's conglobulating swallows. (Samuel Johnson ideas about the migration and hibernation of swallows)
June 1, 1994... Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river. THUS Johnson to Boswell...

Not quite proven: Tobias Smollett's 'The Devil on Crutches.'
June 1, 1994... TOBIAS SMOLLETT is generally held to be responsible for John Osborn's edition of The Devil on Crutches, the 1749 translation of Alain Rene Lesage's Le Diable Boiteilx. The responsible scholar must continue to doubt because Smollett's name did...

An attribution for 'The Age of Dullness' (1757).
June 1, 1994... IN 1757 appeared an unassuming verse satire entitled, |The Age of Dullness. A Satire. By a Natural Son of the Late Mr. POPE. With a Preface giving some Account of his Mother, and how he came to the Knowledge of his Birth'.(1) The author's...

A classical source for Reynolds on the relativity of beauty. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
June 1, 1994... IN his essay on beauty in Idler, lxmii (10 November 1759), Sir Joshua Reynolds presents the following arguments: It is custom alone determines our preference of the colour of the Europeans to the Aethiopians, and they, for the...

Readers and stage-coaches in Fielding and Sterne. (Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne)
June 1, 1994... FIELDING uses various analogies to define the narrative transaction, many being of a kind to stress the reader's participative role. Opening Book II of Joseph Andrews, his discussion of chapter and volume divisions likens the |vacant Pages...

The essays and poems of Edmund Rack: sources and additions to the canon.
June 1, 1994... EDMUND RACK (1735?-87) was given a place in DNB partly for his having been a founder of the subsequently named |Bath and West of England Agricultural Society', and partly for his modest fame as a |miscellaneous writer' patronized after 1775...

Thomas Osborn, an eighteenth-century Baptist deacon in Olney, Buckinghamshire.
June 1, 1994... IN their recent critical edition of William Cowper's letters and prose writings, James King and Charles Ryskamp indicate that they were unable to identify a certain |Ossborn', who appears in two of Cowper's letters to John Newton, that of...

William Taylor's 'The Vision' and its source in Johann Gleim's 'Preussische Kriegeslieder.'
June 1, 1994... IT should be noted that the memorable poem, The Vision, published in Roger Lonsdale's excellent New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (Oxford and New York (1984), 811) as a poem by William Taylor (1765-1836), is actually largely a free...

Sir Brooke Boothby as satirist.
June 1, 1994... IN Notes and Queries of August 1955 (cc. 351-2) David Bonnell Green wrote that Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824) was also a translator from the Italian. Besides translating from the Italian, Greek, Latin, French, and German, Sir Brooke Boothby...

Marlowe: a hoax by William Taylor. (Christopher Marlowe)
June 1, 1994... IN his important article, |The Reputation of Christopher Marlowe' (Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (New Haven, 1922), C. F. Tucker Brooke stated: Not even does there seem to have existed at this period...

A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry.
June 1, 1994... Larrington, C., Pp.. xi 238. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 30.00[pounds]. |HE is no friend to another who says only kind words', advises stanza 1 24 of Havamal. Wisdom poetry, dark and deep, was an important genre in the medieval North....

The Celtic Languages.
June 1, 1994... Ball, M. J. (ed., with J. Fife), Pp. xi + 682. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. 75.00[pounds]. THIS is an excellent book. It gives a comprehensive picture of the Celtic languages from the Iron Age to the present, with special...

The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to 'The Romance of the Rose.' (R
June 1, 1994... Allen, P. L., The Romance of the Rose. Pp. xi + 178. (Middle Ages Series). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. 22.00[pounds]. IN this engaging libellus Peter Allen attempts to locate within the tradition of Ovidian...

'The Tomb of Beowulf' and Other Essays on Old English.
June 1, 1994... Robinson, F. C., Pp. x + 335. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. F45.00. MENTIONED by Robinson in his acknowledgements as one of those who have laboured in the same vineyard as he, I can only say that in his hands the fruit has produced very...

Die 'Regularis Concordia' und ihre altenglische Interlinearversion. (R
June 1, 1994... Kornexl, L. (ed.), Pp. cclxxvii + 423 (Munchener Universitats-Schriften: Philosophische Fakultat -- Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie). Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1993. DR LUCIA KORNEXL's edition of the Regularis...

The Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 2, 1066-1476.
June 1, 1994... Blake, N. (ed.), vol. II, 1066-1476. Pp. xxi 709. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. A USEFUL glossary of technical terms, a very brief bibliography, and a sketchy index complete the second volume of The Cambridge History of...

Nominalkomposita im Fruhmittelenglischen: Mit Ausblicken auf die Geschichte der englischen Nominalkomposition.
June 1, 1994... Sauer, H., Pp. xxviii + 73 8. (Buchreihe der Anglia, Zeitschrift fur englische Philologie, 30). Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1992. As befits a Habilitationsschrift (this one of Munich University), the book here reviewed is a substantial...

Hunting in Middle English Literature. (R
June 1, 1994... Rooney, A., Pp. vii + 213. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 1993. 32.50 [pounds]. THE hunt is one of the more resonant motifs of medieval literature, offering a narrative structure which is at once realistic and...

The History and the Dialects of English: Festschrift for Eduard Kolb. (R
June 1, 1994... Fischer, A. (ed.), Pp. x + 277. Anglistische Forschungen, 203. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1989. DM70.00. THE success of festschriften depends on the quality of the contributions, and Andreas Fischer, as editor of the Festschrift for Eduard...

The Old Norse 'Elucidarius': Original Text and English Translation. (R
June 1, 1994... Firchow, E. S. (trans. and ed.), Pp. xv + 114 (Medieval Texts and Translations). Columbia: Camden House 1992. THE Elucidarius is a twelfth-century summary of elementary Christian theology, set in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a...

Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. (R
June 1, 1994... Gaisser, J. H., Pp. xiii + 446. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 45.00 [pounds]. |AROUND 1300,' as Julia Haig Gasser tells us, Catullus washed up on the shore of the Renaissance after being lost for a thousand years, with only the...

Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire. (R
June 1, 1994... George, D. (ed.), Pp. cxxv + 471. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1992. $125.00. THE county of Lancashire, excellently described in David George's introduction to his |Reed' volume, was in the middle ages a large,...

Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence. (R
June 1, 1994... Augustijn, C. (trans. J. C. Grayson), Pp. x + 239 (Erasmus Studies, 10). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1991. 26.00[pounds]. ERASMUS, a controversial figure in his own time, is still subject to hostile reactions...

The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. (R
June 1, 1994... Roberts, R. H. and Good, J. M. M. (eds), Pp. xii + 278. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1993. 25.00[pounds]. THE title of this collection, readily acknowledged by its editors as puzzling, attempts to compress four interrelated topics....

Primary Materials Relating to Copy and Print in English Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
June 1, 1994... Moore, J. K., Pp. xiii + 103 + 57 plates (Oxford Bibliographical Society, Occasional Publication No. 24). Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library, 1992. Paperbound 2.50[pounds]. IN this catalogue, J. K. Moore provides a...

Spenser's Secret Career.
June 1, 1994... Rambuss, R., Pp. xv + 164 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 3). Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 30.00[pounds]. RAMBUSS provides a fresh biographical profile which foregrounds...

Shakespeare and Ovid.
June 1, 1994... Bate, J., Pp. xii + 270. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 35.00[pounds]. ONE of the pleasures offered by this book, the first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's use of Ovid, is a vivid sense of the vitality of the Renaissance doctrine of...

Henry VI, vols. 1-3. (R
June 1, 1994... Shakespeare, W. (ed. M. Hattaway), 1-3 Pp. xvii + 210; xviii + 248; xvi + 231 (The New Cambridge Shakespeare). Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press 1990, 1991, 1993. Hardbound 19.50[pounds];...

Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels.
June 1, 1994... Vickers, B., Pp. xviii + 508. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. 35.00[pounds]. THE SIXTIES! The Sixties are to blame! In its simplest form this is the rather familiar message of Professor Vickers' weighty new tome; in...

Middleton and Tourneur.
June 1, 1994... White, M., Pp. xi 194 (English Dramatists). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperbound 9.99[pounds]. MARTIN WHITE's useful new study of the works of Middleton and Tourneur seeks to offer coverage of all the major elements of...

Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. (R
June 1, 1994... Kastan, D. S. and Stallybrass, P. (eds), Routledge, 1991. Hardbound 35.00[pounds]; paperbound 10.99[pounds]. MARTIN WHITE's useful new study of the works of Middleton and Tourneur seeks to offer coverage of all the major elements of their...

The Social Relations of Jonson's Theater. (R
June 1, 1994... Haynes, J., Pp. ix + 143. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 27.95[pounds]. THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF JONSON'S THEATER is a useful addition to an increasing body of work that attempts to site Jonson's comedies...

Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 121, Seventeenth Century British Non-Dramatic Poets, First Series.
June 1, 1994... Hester, M. T. (ed.), Pp. xxiii + 414. Detroit and London: Gale Research, 1992. THE editor of this latest volume of Gale Research's ambitious (and so far highly productive) project, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, along with its...

Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660.
June 1, 1994... Corns, T. N., 1640-1660. Pp. xii + 333. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 40.00[pounds]. |NOT 1640-1660 again!', we might be tempted to exclaim, for have we not, within some four or five years past, had Literature in the English Revolution,...

Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in its Contexts. (R
June 1, 1994... Harth, P., Pp. xi + 341. Princeton University Press, 1993. 27.50[pounds]. |I HAVE set a Friend of Mine to consult the News Letters, and haunt the confiding Coffee Houses, where the grave men puff out Sedition', wrote George Larkin in his...

Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671. (R
June 1, 1994... Maguire, N. K., 1660-1671. Pp. xvi + 276. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 35.00[pounds]. THE non-comic corpus of English plays from the 1660s has long laboured under a burden of opprobrium. Awash with...

Samuel Johnson.
June 1, 1994... Rogers, P., Pp. ix + 116 (Past Masters). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Paperbound 4.99[pounds]. THIS excellent little book is the best introduction to Johnson at present available. Every student should read it and...

The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821, Formerly Mrs. Thrale, vol. 3., 1799-1804.
June 1, 1994... Piozzi, H. L. (ed. E. A. and L. D. Bloom), 1784-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), vol. 3,1799-1804. Pp. 529. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1993. 55.00[pounds]. THE third volume of The...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. (R
June 1, 1994... Clemit, P., Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. Pp. xiii + 254. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 30.00[pounds]. PAMELA CLEMIT convincingly makes her case. She establishes Brown and Shelley as novelists best thought of as...

From Abbotsford to Paris and Back: Sir Walter Scott's Journey of 1815.
June 1, 1994... Sultana, D., Pp. xiv 210. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1993. 20.00[pounds]. IT is a commonplace of Scott criticism to treat his trips abroad as momentary hold-ups in the conveyor-belt of his prodigious literary output and they are...

Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health.' (R
June 1, 1994... Wiltshire, J., Pp. xiii + 251. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 30.00[pounds]. JOHN WILTSHIRE's interest in the body, as it appears in Austen's work, is socio-medical, since, he says, |I have convinced...

Wordsworth's Reading: 1770-1799. (R
June 1, 1994... Wu, D., 1770-1799. Pp. xviii + 220. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 40.00[pounds]. THE aim of Duncan Wu's book is to make available to the student of Wordsworth the firm evidence for what Wordsworth read...

The Complete Poetical Works, vol. 7.
June 1, 1994... Byron, Lord (ed. J. J. McGann), vol. Pp. xiv + 445. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 50.00[pounds]. CONGRATULATIONS to Professor McGann on bringing to conclusion the seventh and final volume of Byron's poetical works. The editor...

Byron: 'Don Juan.'
June 1, 1994... Barton, A., Pp. xvii + 106 (Landmarks of World Literature). Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 19.95[pounds]. THESE two books, whilst differing considerably in their scope and ambition, present welcome...

Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society. (R
June 1, 1994... Christensen, J., Pp. xxv + 426. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1993. 26.00[pounds]. THESE two books, whilst differing considerably in their scope and ambition, present welcome additions to the rapidly expanding...

The hand of the Arch-Sinner: Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Bronte. (R
June 1, 1994... Bronte, B. (ed. R. G. Collins), Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Bronte. Pp. ivi + 243. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 30.00[pounds]. BRANWELL'S failure is possibly explicable in that he carried a heavier weight of expectation than his...

A Life of Emily Bronte. (R
June 1, 1994... Chitham, E., A Life of Emily Bronte. Pp. viii + 284. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1993 (1st pub. 1987). Paperbound 12.99[pounds]. BRANWELL'S failure is possibly explicable in that he carried a heavier weight of...

Great Expectations.
June 1, 1994... Dickens, C. (ed. M. Cardwell), Pp. lxvii + 516. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 60.00[pounds]. THE first of the Clarendon Editions of Dickens, Oliver Twist, appeared in 1966; Great Expectations is the eighth in the series. That the enter...

Oliver Twist.
June 1, 1994... Dickens, C. (ed. F. Kaplan), Pp. xii + 611 (Norton Critical Editions). New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1993. Paperbound 7.95[pounds]. STUDENTS of Dickens at every level are fortunate indeed to have access to resources such as these,...

The Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. 7, 1853-1855.
June 1, 1994... Dickens, C. (ed. G. Story, K. Tillotson, and A. Easson) vol. 7, 1853-1855. Pp. xxiii + 975 (The Pilgrim Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 85.00[pounds]. STUDENTS of Dickens at every level are fortunate indeed to have access to...