Papers on Language & Literature articles from September 1997

Papers on Language & Literature archives from September 1997

"The order of time": nationalism and literary anthologies, 1774-1831.
September 22, 1997... In Jerusalem, William Blake declares, "Nations are Destroy'd, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry Painting and Music, are Destroy'd or Flourish!" (plate 3). Blake, in his own inimitable way, is articulating one of the fundamental precepts...

Case study in social neurosis; Quentin Compson and the lost cause.
September 22, 1997... On June 2, 1910 a confused nineteen-year old Mississippian, two six-pound flat irons in his suit pockets, plunged into the Charles River near the Harvard campus. Quentin Compson left one suicide note before taking his life: for Shreve McCannon,...

Intonation and iambic pentameter.
September 22, 1997... While history has not been kind to Roman Jakobson's claiming all of poetics as a branch of linguistics (350), it would seem a priori that the study of meter and verse rhythm could use the support of linguistics, since meter is so technical a...

"The most fatal of all faults": Samuel Johnson on Prior's Solomon and the need for variety; Matthew Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World."
September 22, 1997... As literary critics we are always tempted to blur the categories of instruction and pleasure, to conclude that a work of literature is aesthetically excellent simply because we find it ideologically excellent. Perhaps no literary critic has ever...

Kate Field: Selected Letters.
September 22, 1997... Carolyn J. Moss. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996, 304 pp. Hardcover $49.95. Students of nineteenth-century American history know Kate Field as a multi-talented career woman. Field was a prolific journalist, a successful lecturer,...