Notes and Queries articles from September 1997

Notes and Queries archives from September 1997

Oe laf in place-names. (old English word)
September 1, 1997... One of the least satisfactory entries in Smith's English Place-Name Elements of 1956 is for the headword laf, an Old English word defined as 'remains, what is left, a bequest'.(1) Three placename occurrences are cited, the most straightforward...

The 'Man of Law's' Custance: administrator of Frankalmoign.
September 1, 1997... John A. Alford has called attention to 'the tendency of lexicographers to deny or overlook specialized usage in general writings'.(1) Alford, in such works as Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction, works towards remedying the frequent...

A fragment of verse in Hereford Cathedral Library MS O.III.11.
September 1, 1997... There is a fragment of Middle English in Hereford Cathedral Library MS O.III.11, fo. [122.sup.v], printed by Mynors and Thomson in their catalogue.(1) Thi sente(2) moder was ful wo tho he saht pine so an ti blod fel to grunde With the sarpe...

Books for nuns: Cambridge University Library MS additional 3042.
September 1, 1997... The number of surviving manuscripts that can be shown to have belonged to houses of religious women in medieval England is pitifully small.(1) Apart from the double house of Syon Abbey, whose relative wealth of surviving books has recently been...

Gray, Propertius, and the games stanza in the 'Eton College Ode.'
September 1, 1997... In his definitive edition of Gray's poetry, Roger Lonsdale has pointed out that aspects of the games stanza in the Eton College Ode ('What idle progeny succeed / To chase the rolling circle's speed, / Or urge the flying ball')(1) derive from...

William Gilpin and Samuel Rogers at Tintern Abbey. (authors)
September 1, 1997... William Gilpin toured the Wye Valley in June 1770; his Observations on the River Wye, not published until 1782, portrays a borderland idyll that can fairly be said to have initiated Tintern's tourist industry: From Monmouth we reached .... ..

Blake's man in the iron mask.
September 1, 1997... Blake's symbolic presentation of the Bastille in his early poem, The French Revolution (c. 1790), reduces it to 'seven towers': the towers of 'Horror', 'Darkness', 'Religion', 'Order', and 'Destiny', 'the tower named Bloody', and 'the Tower of...

'Mansfield Park,' Sterne's starling, and Bunyan's Man of Despair. (Jane Austen's novel)
September 1, 1997... I have suggested in an earlier note that Jane Austen alludes to an episode in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress in one of the Sotherton scenes in Mansfield Park.(1) I would now like to propose that another allusion to Bunyan, to a different...

Sara Hutchinson's final hours: a new Wordsworth letter to Southey.
September 1, 1997... On 24 June 1835 William Wordsworth wrote to Robert Southey announcing Sara Hutchinson's death and referring to a 'letter of yesterday' which 'must have prepared you'.(1) The hitherto unpublished 'letter of yesterday' which has been part of the...

'Recognitions dim and faint': the hermit of 'Tintern Abbey' again. (William Wordsworth's novel)
September 1, 1997... Once again I see. . . . . . wreaths of smoke Sent up in silence from among the trees! With some uncertain notice, as might seem, Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire The hermit sits alone.(1)...

Wordsworth's 'Egyptian Maid' and 'The Faerie Queene.' (poet William Wordsworth)
September 1, 1997... According to Wordsworth's introductory note, the names and persons in 'The Egyptian Maid: or, The Romance of the Water Lily' are taken from Malory, but 'for the rest the Author is answerable'. The poem, Wordsworth wrote to Edward Quillinan,...

The identity of four fragmentary lines on page 152 of MS R of Home at Grasmere. (William Wordsworth's poem)
September 1, 1997... MS R of Home at Grasmere is part of an interleaved copy of Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects (1796), in which Wordsworth entered the lines of Home at Grasmere in their early stage. These lines correspond to lines 469 to 860 of MS B....

George Campbell and Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria.'
September 1, 1997... If, in his famous commentary in Biographia Literaria on Wordsworth's natural theory of poetic diction, Coleridge queries what his erstwhile collaborator meant by 'the language of real life'(1) in 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads', subsequent...

A new letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (poet)
September 1, 1997... A Hitherto unpublished letter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge dated 10 August 1827 is the second one that indicates the acquaintance of the poet with the recipient, Thomas Farrer. The first letter - addressed to Mrs Farrer on 25 May 1826 - was...

A new letter of Thomas Moore. (poet)
September 1, 1997... In the Special Collections of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries there is a previously unpublished letter of Thomas Moore's, which is undated and addressed to 'My dear Sir'. In the letter, Moore is enquiring about the health of the...

L.E.L. and Rosina Bulwer: an unpublished letter. (author Letitia Landon)
September 1, 1997... The following letter from Letitia Landon to Mrs Samuel Carter Hall (Anna Maria Fielding) is held in the Mitchell Collection, State Library of N. S. W. (CY Reel 2222; ML A24p54), and once formed part of the autograph collection of Sir Henry...

Keats's ode 'To Autumn', Ovid, and Homer. (poet John Keats)
September 1, 1997... One of the many achievements of Keats's great ode 'To Autumn' is the way it breaks with the more formal 'insertive' prosopopoeia of the eighteenth century, and extracts its personification from figures in the landscape: Who hath not seen...

A periodical source for Peacock's 'Headlong Hall.' (Thomas Love Peacock's novel)
September 1, 1997... Thomas Love Peacock's first novel, Headlong Hall (1915), turns on a debate about progress. Foremost among its disputants, which include phrenologists, landscape-gardeners, fashionable portraitists, and periodical reviewers, all guests of Squire...

Confounded commas: confusion in an interpretation of Heathcliff.
September 1, 1997... Few readers of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) forget the emotionally charged and passionate encounter of Heathcliff and the dying Catherine Linton in her bedchamber at Thrushcross Grange (vol. II, chapter I in the 1847 edition; chapter...

'Giant of a former age': a final note on James Shergold Boone?
September 1, 1997... The name of James Shergold Boone, author of The Oxford Spy and an ephemeral literary celebrity of the early nineteenth century, is now quite forgotten. Not long after his death in 1859, however, he was the focus of animated discussion in the...

Mary Shelley's last letter?
September 1, 1997... Mary Shelley's correspondence with Thomas Love Peacock and his daughter Mary Ellen, the first wife of George Meredith, was evidently more extensive than the extant remains might suggest. Although her letters to Mary Ellen appear to have been...

Browning, famine, and the Duke of Norfolk's curry.
September 1, 1997... In section XII of Easter-Day (1850) Browning contrasts St Paul's promise of immortality with the 'blind hopes' held out by the pagan Aeschylus. In an extended metaphor of food and cookery, Christian faith is seen as an integral part of the...

Browning's 'A Forgiveness': a mystery solved? (Robert Browning novel)
September 1, 1997... Robert Browning published 'A Forgiveness', a dramatic monologue spoken by a Spanish nobleman who has murdered his wife, in 1876. There is a small but engrossing mystery about the work; in manuscript, the poem was called 'Komm Spanisch!' ('How...

Wordsworth's 'The Warning': a new source for Browning's 'The Lost Leader'? (poems by William Wordsworth and Robert Browning)
September 1, 1997... 'The lost leader' is one of Robert Browning's best known, if not actually best, poems. He published it in November 1845, in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, and it is an attack upon a former leader of the Liberal/Radical movement who deserted to...

Vidocq, the spy: a possible source for Count Fosco in Wilkie Collins's 'The Woman in White.'
September 1, 1997... Critics of Wilkie Collins's work have identified two possible sources for his sensation novel, The Woman in White (1860), which first appeared as serial in Dickens's All The Year Round. The origin for Hartright's midnight encounter with Anne...

The passing of Arthur and Eikon Basilike. (record of King Charles I's final words)
September 1, 1997... The dying speech of King Arthur in the final book of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, simple on the surface, has within it literary allusions.(1) The main themes come from the equivalent speech in Malory's Morte Darthur: '"Comfort thyself," said...

Two Audley courts: Tennyson and M.E. Braddon. (Alfred Lord Tennyson and Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
September 1, 1997... Tennyson was a great admirer of the sensation novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In 1868, on discovering that the son of his friend, W. H. Brookfield, enjoyed her novels, he admitted, 'Do you know that I am simply steeped in Miss Braddon? I'm...

Unpublished letter by John Ruskin to the Reverend Walter L. Brown. (writer)
September 1, 1997... The Revd Walter L. Brown was Ruskin's tutor at Christ Church (1837-40). They remained friends and regular correspondents after Ruskin left Oxford, and Ruskin would occasionally visit Brown at his home in Wendlebury in Oxfordshire. Their...

John Ruskin's letter to Charles Eliot Norton of 4 November 1860: a corrected text.
September 1, 1997... John Ruskin's 4 November 1860 letter to Charles Eliot Norton has been published twice, first by Norton himself and then in John Bradley and Ian Ousby's 1987 edition of the Ruskin-Norton correspondence.(1) When Norton published the letter in...

Some Ruskin annotations of John Tyndall. (John Ruskin)
September 1, 1997... Ruskin's own first edition copies of John Tyndall's The Glaciers of the Alps (1860) and The Forms of Water (1872) are preserved in the Ruskin collection currently held in Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight.(1) A consideration of Ruskin's...

Ruskin, Wilde, and Lillie Langtry. (authors John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde)
September 1, 1997... John Unrau observed in Notes and Queries (August 1982) that 'Several of [Oscar] Wilde's biographers have claimed, without stating their source, that Wilde introduced Ruskin to Lily Langtry'.(1) The source is Lillie Langtry herself. In her very...

The reference to Mantegna in 'The Critic as Artist.' (Oscar Wilde drama)
September 1, 1997... Among the principles which Gilbert, the protagonist of Wilde's aesthetics, sets forth in 'The Critic as Artist' is the thesis that 'each of the arts has a critic, as it were, assigned to it' a thesis, which Gilbert proceeds to explain by...

Prunes and prism: Wilde and Dickens. (plawright Oscar Wilde and author Charles Dickens)
September 1, 1997... Miss Prism, Cecily Cardew's comically moralistic governess in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, may take her name from a phrase in Dickens closely associated with a somewhat similar character. In Little Dorrit, Fanny and Amy Dorrit are...

Swinburne on Coleridge: an unpublished letter. (Charles Swinburne and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
September 1, 1997... In May 1907 Swinburne gave a copy of Ernest Hartley Coleridge's facsimile edition of Christabel (Henry Frowde, 1907) to his only surviving sister, Isabel. The book is inscribed, 'Isabel Swinburne from her affectionate brother Algernon Charles...

H.G. Wells and the expression 'brain(s) trust.' (English author)
September 1, 1997... According to OED, although there was a 'chance occurrence' of the expression 'brain trust' in 1910, the main use of the phrase began in 1933, when it was 'given to a group of experts appointed . . . to advise the American President ED....

An overlooked irony in D.H. Lawrence's use of dialect in 'Sons and Lovers.' (author)
September 1, 1997... No commentator appears to have noticed the deep ironical significance of a conversational exchange that takes place between Mr and Mrs Morel early in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, centring on the use of the dialect word 'nesh', which has been...

Yeats and Moran. (poet William Butler Yeats, D.P. Moran)
September 1, 1997... A source for the metaphor of the 'horse collar' which William Butler Yeats used to describe what he saw as the degenerative progress of democracy in Ireland in his commentary on the poem 'Parnell's Funeral' in The King of the Great Clock Tower...

'The Waste Land' drafts, 'The Engine' and the sinking of the Titanic.
September 1, 1997... The ten lines of the published 'Death By Water' previously stood as coda in a ninetythree line draft composed late in 1921.(1) The discarded eighty-three lines form a continuous narrative in which a Gloucester schooner sets out eastward across...

Edith Sitwell and Stephen Spender in 'Orion' (1945). (poets)
September 1, 1997... Edith Sitwell's The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age appeared in the first volume of Orion, A Miscellany, edited by Rosamond Lehman, Edwin Muir, Denys Kilman Roberts, and C. Day Lewis (1945), 28-9. There are a few revisions, the word 'aged'...

Auden's 'hush-hush engine' and 'wonder liner'.
September 1, 1997... Ode IV in the 'Six Odes' which constitute Book III of The Orators describes the infant John Warner (among many other attributes) as 'Our hush-hush engine, our wonder liner,/Our gadget, our pride'.(1) Reading The Official British Rail Book of...

'The wild echoes flying': an allusion to Tennyson's 'The Splendour Falls' in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood. (poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson)
September 1, 1997... Towards the beginning of Under Milk Wood, the Reverend Eli Jenkins 'remembers his own verses' and delivers his well-known 'Morning Hynm', beginning, 'Dear Gwalia! I know there are / Towns lovelier than ours . . .'.(1) The third stanza of the...

Dylan Thomas in Oxford: an unpublished poem.
September 1, 1997... 'I've written a long comic poem, not to be published, to keep the uttermost cellarmen of depression away and to prevent my doing crosswords,' Dylan Thomas wrote to Vernon Watkins in April 1946.(1) He and his family were living in a summer-house...

E.R. Dodds and Henry Sidgwick. (authors)
September 1, 1997... In the preface to his edition of Plato's Gorgias,(1) E. R. (Eric Robertson) Dodds (1893-1979) apologized for the amount of space that he had devoted to textual matters. As he said (v): 'I am conscious that very few of the textual problems I...

Henry Sidgwick's appointment as Praelector in moral science. (special lecturer)
September 1, 1997... Henry Sidgwick, in a celebrated gesture, resigned as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1869 when he could no longer subscribe to the thirty-nine articles of the Church of England. Although the Test Acts of 1871 removed the requirement...

'Dear Mr. Larkin... .'
September 1, 1997... The full richness of the Philip Larkin collection held in the archives at the Brynmor Jones Library, Hull University, should become apparent to scholars and researchers over the next three years. The workbooks and many key correspondences are...

Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin's 'Aubade'.
September 1, 1997... In an article of 1993, Edward Wilson noted that Philip Larkin may have borrowed the image of a telephone crouching, found in the final stanza of his poem 'Aubade' ('Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring/In locked-up offices') from...

The burning heart in Poe's 'Al Aaraaf': another possible source. (Edgar Allan Poe)
September 1, 1997... In identifying William Beckford's Vathek as Poe's source for the image of the burning heart in 'Al Aaraaf' (Poe Studies, xxii, 2 (December 1989), 47-8), Adeline Tintner ably fills the gap acknowledged by the editor of Poe's Collected Works, T....

Mark Twain, Baker's Chronicle, and Joseph Andrews. (Sir William Baker's book 'Chronicle of the Kings of England'; Henry Fielding's novel 'Joseph Andrews')
September 1, 1997... In a 1993 article, Earl F. Briden discussed the three versions of Mark Twain's 'The Great Landslide Case', which appeared respectively in 1863, 1870, and 1872, and the possible inspiration for the second and third versions provided by Twain's...

The Liber Vitae of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey Winchester, British Library Stowe 944 together with Leaves from British Library Cotton Vespasian A.VIII and British Library Cotton Titus DC.XXVII.
September 1, 1997... The 'Liber Vitae', British Library MS Stowe 944, is a book recording and commemorating the names of the brothers, monks, associates, and benefactors of the New Minster and (following a relocation of the community in 1110) Hyde Abbey,...

Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience.
September 1, 1997... England and Englishmen were involved in a great deal of fighting, in very varied conditions and regions, between 1066 and the end of the Hundred Years War; this makes the subtitle of Michael Prestwich's survey of medieval warfare, 'the English...

Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies.
September 1, 1997... This collection of essays represents an overview of the work of the late Michael M. Sheehan, CSB, and pays tribute to his contribution to the study of medieval law and society, sadly abbreviated by his death in 1992. The collection draws...

Dictionary of Old English: A.
September 1, 1997... This is the fifth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, to appear, completing the run of letters through to D - one more milestone for the small hand of scholars who initiated the dictionary project and who are now slowly but surely...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 1, Facsimile of MS. F: The Domitian Bilingual.
September 1, 1997... Three very different volumes of the project, originally directed by D. N. Dumville and S. E. Keynes (but for the two volumes published in 1996 their names do not appear as general editors) are reviewed here, the first, a facsimile of one of the...

Loyal Letters: Studies on Mediaeval Alliterative Poetry and Prose.
September 1, 1997... The title of this book, of course, alludes to what is usually taken to be an allusion to alliterative prosody in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and at the same time it serves well as the title of a festschrift to mark loyally the retirement...

Medieval Comic Tales, 2nd ed.
September 1, 1997... Derek Brewer's new collection, translated by six scholars into modern English from medieval French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch, and Latin, is 'an informal, and inevitably rather arbitrary, selection of European medieval comic...

Lazamon's Brut.
September 1, 1997... This new edition of Laghamon's Brut is an important event. The grand length of the poem is itself, at least quantitatively, an index of importance, and, as is increasingly recognized in the revival of interest in it, its quality is better than...

The House of Fame.
September 1, 1997... Based, like most modern editions of the poem, on the earliest surviving manuscript witness, Bodleian MS Fairfax 16 (F), this edition brings current views on the relationship of the surviving witnesses into sharper focus, citing corroborative...

The Legend of Good Women.
September 1, 1997... This new edition demands serious consideration both in its own right and as a possible model for editions of other texts. Janet Cowen and George Kane have rigorously subjected the variant readings of the manuscripts and Thynne's early print of...

The Authorship of The Equatorie of the Planetis.
September 1, 1997... Derek J. Price, when in 1955 he published the facsimile edition of The Equatorie of the Planetic, was perhaps not cautious enough for the matter not to be promoted into an exciting Chaucerian discovery. Price had informed a wider readership in...

The Life and Times of John Trevisa, Medieval Scholar.
September 1, 1997... Writing biography is different for medievalists. Biographers whose subjects inhabit the modern era must sift and assess a mass of information, whereas constructing a life of John Trevisa (c. 1342-1402) means 'drawing lines to connect the dots'....

A Companion to Malory.
September 1, 1997... A Companion to Malory should be regarded as a timely addition to the whole corpus of Maloriana. This volume of new critical essays which comprises three parts 'Malory in Context', 'The Art of the Morte Darthur' and 'Posterity' - is a second...

Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry.
September 1, 1997... Mythography, that popular medieval exercise in flexible hermeneutics, offers the reader, Professor Tinkle asserts, a fly's-eye view (75) of the 'motley horde' (1) of medieval Venuses and Cupids. The fly's large and prominent compound eye...

Edmund Spenser: A Reception History.
September 1, 1997... The case made by David Hill Radcliffe's ambitious and scholarly work is that Edmund Spenser's poetry is central to subsequent conceptions of English literature. This makes his task as the author of a reception history a lot more interesting -...

Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism.
September 1, 1997... Ben Jonson's contribution to Spenser's criticism has usually been centred around three often reproduced comments: that Spenser died for lack of bread in Westminster, that the Blatant Beast was a satire on the puritans and that he writ no...

The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade.
September 1, 1997... Professor Guy has been arguing for a relatively long time that the reign of Elizabeth I should be split into two distinct halves. The first reign, before 1585, was a time of relative success when the queen was able to use her feminine wiles at...

Endymion.
September 1, 1997... David Bevington's edition of Endymion is a useful contribution to Renaissance drama studies. It presents the text of Lyly's most celebrated and most puzzling play in a very readable modern-spelling version, with a host of helpful glosses to...

Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature.
September 1, 1997... The provocative central thesis of this book is that all modern critics of Renaissance literature have been unwittingly Hobbesians. Leviathan sounded the death-knell of an older classical and medieval natural law tradition, undermining...

Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays.
September 1, 1997... This book consists of two parts, a collection of critical essays (372 pages) and accounts of the play 'on stage' (143 pages). Part One begins with some of the classic essays on Titus Andronicus: Hereward Price on its authorship, Eugene Waith on...

The Trick of Singularity: Twelfth Night and the Performance Editions.
September 1, 1997... This study charts the history and development of the performance editions of Twelfth Night, beginning with Bell's 1774 edition and concluding with the 1993 video version, The Animated Tales. Taking its cue from II.v.142, the book's title...

Shakespeare's Universe: Renaissance Ideas and Conventions. Essays in Honour of W.R. Elton.
September 1, 1997... This collection of twenty-three essays in honour of W. R. Elton covers six broad areas of Shakespearian study and is intended to provide an overview of modern Renaissance 'scholarship and its methodologies' while balancing 'both traditional and...

Shakespeare's Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays.
September 1, 1997... This study, focused on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, King Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, offers a number of useful insights into these late plays, and it is also concerned with some aspects of their historical and...

Shakespeare in Production: Whose History?
September 1, 1997... Things have changed since the 1981 World Shakespeare Congress, 'Shakespeare, Man of the Theatre', showed most attending academics unaware of what went on in a theatre. The RSC's TV programmes and books, then such sensitive scholarly work as...

Poetaster.
September 1, 1997... Most of us know Poetaster - if we know it at all - mainly for the vomiting scene, when all of Crispinus' (or Marston's) hard and indigestible words come up in a comically outrageous climax. The rest of Jonson's text survives as a little read...

Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640.
September 1, 1997... The subject of this book would seem at first sight to be of greater interest to the student of society and politics than to the musicologist. Masques of this period do not survive with the comprehensive scores associated with some continental...

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry.
September 1, 1997... Elizabeth Cary's play, The Tragedy of Mariam, has received much critical attention recently, largely due to its status as the first printed play by an Englishwoman (in 1613). Cary has condensed events of the years 37-35 BC, recorded by the...

Poems: A Modernized Edition.
September 1, 1997... This volume is a useful and attractively produced addition to the relatively new but promising Renaissance Texts and Studies series. In providing both students and general readers with clearly laid out and modernized texts of Wroth's major...

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: de rerum natura.
September 1, 1997... Lucy Hutchinson was the pioneering English translator of Lucretius; her complete version was probably finished in the 1650s, though it remained unpublished, while Creech's version did not appear until 1682. Quite apart from the current interest...

Restoration Politics and Drama: The Plays of Thomas Otway, 1675-1683.
September 1, 1997... Dr Munns writes in a vacuum: there is no deep tradition of critical commentary on Otway. The Orphan enjoyed a long sentimental popularity in the eighteenth century; Venice Preserv'd has attracted some attention in ours. It is unlikely that many...

The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins.
September 1, 1997... Since the title of this study includes the words 'universal languages' and the illustration on the front cover of the dust-jacket is an excerpt from John Wilkins's Essay (1668), it would appear that the intended readers are historians of...

Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden.
September 1, 1997... This book is the first part of a two-volume study of the relation between English poetry and politics from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden and its simultaneously...

Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to Wordsworth.
September 1, 1997... This highly intelligent, scholarly, and lucid sequel to Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden, offers both important fresh readings of Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and Wordsworth and a more general assessment of a particular type of...

Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture.
September 1, 1997... This is a fresh and highly intelligent study of a good range of Pope's poetry: The Rape of the Lock, the Epistles to Burlington, Bathurst, and a Lady, the Horatian imitations (including To Arbuthnot and the Dialogues), with a section on Pope's...

Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition.
September 1, 1997... In Fielding's early play The Author's Farce, a Grub Street subculture of phoney learning is brilliantly sent up: while the publisher Book-weight hurriedly commissions from one seedy freelance 'two Latin sedition motto and one Greek moral motto...

Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels.
September 1, 1997... Fielding critics used to talk about affectation and hypocrisy as his prevailing satiric concerns - perversions of the real to be mocked and exposed by a fiction which always values, and strives in its endings to represent, a lucid world of...