Papers on Language & Literature articles from June 1996

Papers on Language & Literature archives from June 1996

"Grown sick with hope deferred": Christina Rossetti's darker musings.
June 22, 1996... Our appreciation of Christina Rossetti's poetry, our estimation of her work against that of other Victorian poets, has been limited by at least two critical errors. Critics have devoted much more attention to her "devotional" poems than to her...

"Too soon marr'd": Juliet's age as symbol in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
June 22, 1996... The tender age of Juliet Capulet provides the focus of the initial conversation between Lord Capulet and Count Paris in Romeo and Juliet. She is still a child, says her father, "a straunger in the world" who "hath not seene the chaunge of...

"A Stranger in a Strange Land": Biblical typology of the Exodus in Dryden's 'The Spanish Friar'; or, 'The Double Discovery.'
June 22, 1996... Critic Susan J. Owen bemoans the fate of John Dryden's The Spanish Friar; Or, the double discovery (1680), a play she deems important though much neglected (97). Discomfited by the play's disjointed appearance, scholars continue to neglect...

From a home to the world: Stephen Crane's 'George's Mother.'
June 22, 1996... Stephen Crane's career can be considered as similar to Keats's in the swift coming to maturity of the two writers. As with Keats's movement from the apprentice effort of Endymion in 1817 to the great odes of 1819, Crane developed quickly from...

'Christabel,' 'King Lear,' and the Cinderella folktale.
June 22, 1996... Source studies of Coleridge's mysterious ballad Christabel have been numerous and yet tentative. In the well-researched and well-known Road to Tryermaine, Arthur Nethercot admits that he "has not found any one whole story on which.... the...

Robert Stone's decadent leftists.
June 22, 1996... That "the best lack all conviction while the worst are filled with passionate intensity"(1) -- Yeat's conclusion early in this century -- continues to apply, although now the best are bigger wimps, and the worst are more murderous. To Robert...