CONTENTS
1. Volume LIX Number 4 October 2009
Critical Opinion
Thomas Karshan: Evolutionary Criticism

Articles

Catherine Brown: Daniel Dronda as Tragicomedy
David Sergeant: Kipling’s Descriptions

Reviews

John M. Flyer on Later Medieval English Literature by Douglas Gray

Desmond Graham on The poetry of War by James Anderson Winn

Lily Cui on Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions by Michael Snediker

Peter Swaab on New Collected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner; edited with an introduction by Claire Harman

2. Volume LIX Number 3 July 2009

Articles

Jeremy Tambling: Law and Wil in Measure for Measure

Brian Cheadle: Improvising character in Our Mutual Friend

Jonathan Hufstader: Auden’s Sacred World

REVIEWS

Julia Griffin on Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London by Will Pritchard

Brigid Lowe On Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Margery Sabin on Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture by Amit Chaudhuri

Matthew Peters on How Fiction Works by James Wood
3. Volume LIX Number 2 April 2009

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture
Angela Leighton: Poetry and the Imagining Ear

Articles

Anne Stillman: Sweeney Among the Marionettes

Tim Kendall: Gurney and Fritz

Reviews

Marcus Waithe on John Donne in the Nineteenth Century by Dayton Haskin

William R. McKelvy on Catholicism, Sexual Deviance and Victorian Gothic Culture by Patrick O’Malley
Matthew M. DeForrest on Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and the Lyric Form by Helen Vendler

Keith Gore on Biography and the Question of Literature in France by Ann Jefferson

4. Volume LIx Number 1 January 2009

Critical Opinion

Maximillian De Gaynesford: The Seriousness of Poetry

Articles

J.A. Burrow: Vituperations in Chaucer’s Poetry

Tim Fulford: ‘Long Meg’ and the Later Wordsworth

Reviews

Helen Cooper on Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante and Jean de Meun by John M. Fyler

John Leonard on Milton’s Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in ‘Paradise Lost’ by Andrew Mattison
Debra San on last Things: Emily Bronte’s Poems by Janet Gezari

John Harvey on the Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce by Matthew Bevis

Anthony Kenny on the Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History by Lee Oser

5. Volume LVIII Number 4 October 2008

Critical Opinion

J.Stephen Murphy: The Death of the Editor

Articles

Peter McCullough: Christmas at Elsinore

James Womack: Auden’s Goethe

Reviews

Jean Wilson and Norman Hammond on Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature by Phillip Schwyzer

Bernard Richards on Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by Michele Mendelssohn

David-Antoine Williams on A Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook

Jennifer Formichelli on Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition by Mary Douglas

6. Volume LVIII Number 3 July 2008

Critical Opinion

David Chandler: The Importance of the Three-part Perlude

Articles

Martin Dodsworth: Donne, Drama and Despotism in ‘To his Mistress Going to Bed’

Robert MacFarlane: Gravity and Grace in Geoffrey Hill

Reviews

J.J.M. Tobin on Hamlet and Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor

Alice Hiller on Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life by Deirdre David

Steven Stryer on A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia by Aaron Santesso


Steven Isenberg on Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall
7. Volume LVIII Number 2 April 2008
F.W Bateson Memorial Lecture

Alastair Fowler: Proper Naming: Personal Names in Literature
Articles
F.P. Lock: Thouing the King in Shakespeare’s Plays

Christopher Hands: Byron’s Conservation with Shelley

Reviews

Jason Harding on William Empson: Against the Christians by John Haffenden

Todd Hearon on Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare edited by Scott L. Newstok

Stephen Fix on Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791

Timothy Jackson on Wallace Stevens: Poetry and Criticism by Tim Morris

8. Volume LVIII Number 1 January 2008

Critical opinion

Jennifer Formichelli: Empson’s Dog

Articles

John Richardson: Sterne’s Patriotic Shandeism

Melissa Raines: George Eliot’s Grammar of Being

New Impressions XIII

Matthew Scott: Edward Said’s Orientalism

Book Reviews

Sara Jaye Hart on the Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present by Jerome McGann

Rebekah Scott on On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the legacy of a Word by Angela Leighton by Angela Leighton

9. Volume LVII Number 4 October 2007

Critical Opinion

Jim McGue: John Payne Collier, the Scholar Forger

Articles

Freya Johnston : Accumulation in Johnson’s Dictionary

Lucy Newlyn: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Experimental style

Book Reviews

A.V.C Schmidt on the Tragic Argument of ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ by Gerald Morgan

Shona McIntosh on The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England by Marta Straznicky

James Sitar on the Notebooks of Robert Frost by Robert Faggen

George Kalogeris on Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form by David Caplan

10. Volume LVII Number 3 July 2007

Critical Opinion

W.A. Hart: Martha Nussbaum and the Golden Bowl

Articles

Irene Morra: Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Italian Opera

Kelvin Everest: Shelley’s Adonais and John Keats

Book Reviews

Anthony Moore on Strange likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth –Century Poetry by Chris Jones

Elaine Jordan on Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer by Isobel Hurst

Peter McDonald on T.S Eliot by Craig Raine

11. Volume LVII Number 2 April 2007

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Peter Porter: The Reas’ning Engine: Poetry and Philosophy

Articles

Beatrice Groves: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Genevan Marginalia

Jane Partner: Satanic Vision And Acrostics in Paradise Lost

Peter Robinson: Captain Benwick’s Reading

Reviews

Matthew Bevis on Literature and the Taste of Knowledge by Michael Wood

Owen Boynton on British Poetry in the Age of Modernism by Peter Howarth

Greg Clingham on the Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson, edited by Roger Lonsdale

12. Volume LVII Number 1 January 20017

Critical Opinion

John Lyon: Going on: Lawrence’s Cockney Letters

Articles

Stephen Gill: Wordsworth and the River Duddon

Book Reviews

Cate Gunn on Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender by Alcuin Blamires

Bryan A. Garner on the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. xviii Samuel Johnson on the English Language edited by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert De Maria Jr.

Frances Dickey on Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Alice Quinn

Charles Lock on Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood by Kathryn Sutherland

13. Volume LVI Number 4 October 2006

Articles

A.V.C. Schmidt: ‘Elementary’ Images in the Samaritan Episode of Piers Plowman

John Creaser: Herrick at Play

Edward Neill: Mixed Modes in the Trumpet-Major

P.N. Furbank: The Story in The Sacred Fount

Reviews

Andrew Mattison on Taste: A Literary History by Denise Gigante

Lucy Newlyn on Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism by Andrew M. Stauffer

Adam Piett on Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration edited by James Knowlson and Elizabeth Knowlson

14. Volume LVI Number 3 July 2006

Articles
Subha Mukherji: False Trials in Shakespeare, Massinger, and Ford

N.K. Sugimura: Changelings and The Changeling

New Impressions XII

Janet Gezari: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic

Reviews

Denise Gigante on Losing Our Heads: Beheadings in Literature and Culture by Regina Janes

John Talbot on the Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics by Robin Sowerby

Christopher Decker on the Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Ruibaiyat by Erik Gray
 
15. Volume LVI Number 2 April 2006

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Rachel Bowlby: Family Realism: Freud and Greek Tragedy

Articles

Porscha Fermanis: Isabella, Lamia and ‘Merry Old England’

Lucy Newlyn: Hazlitt and Edward Thomas on Walking

Reviews

Phillip Horne on the Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky

Martin Dodsworth on William Empson: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden

Emily Taylor Merriman on Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations by Peter Robinson

16. Volume LVI Number 1 January 2006

Critical Opinion

Jim McCue: Editing Editor

Articles

John Coyle: Ruskin, Proust and the Art of Failure

Iain Twiddy: Seamus Heaney’s Versions of Pastoral

New Impressions XI

Andrew Keanie: Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel

Reviews

Eliza Richards on Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach

Nicolas De Warren on Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler



 
17. Volume LV April 2005 No. 2

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Alastair Minnis: ‘Dante in Inglissh’: What IL Convivio really did for Chaucer

Articles

Kazuhiko Funakawa: The Metamorphoses of the Scholar-Gipsy

Matthew creasy: Shakespeare Burlesque in Ulysses

New Impression X

Nicholas Halmi: Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry

Reviews

Dennis Flynn on John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit by Jeanne Shami

Steven Stryer on British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of conflict by Simon Bainbridge

John Morton on Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century by Samantha Matthews


18. Volume LIV October 2004 No. 4
Critical Opinion

Ian Donaldson: Biographical Uncertainty

Articles

John Scattergood: Validating the High Life in of Arthour and of Merlin and Kyng Alisaunder

Jeremy Tambling: Lebinas and Macbeth’s ‘Strange Images of Death’

New Impressions VIII

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: I. A. Richard’s Practical Criticism


Reviews

Marcia karp on /Making Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and other Essays by D.F. Mckenzie

Freya Johnston on Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450 -1830 by David McKitterick

Lisa Hinrichsen on Goerge Eliot’s Pulse by Neil Hertz

David Ross on Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science by Holly Henry


19. Volume LIV July 2004 No. 3

Critical Opinion

Dinah Birch: The Scholar Husband

Articles

Mina Gorji: Clare’s Awkwardness

Thomas Day: Donald Davie’s Negative Virtues

New Impressions VII

Seamus Perry: The Mirror and the Lamp

Reviews

Mike Cooper on John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume v, edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell, and P.M. S. Dawson

Pamela Neville-Sington on The Letters of Elizaneth Barrett Browning to her Sister Arabella edited by Scott Lewis

Alex Runchman on Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern America Poetry by Bonnie Costello

 
20. Volume LIV April 2004

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

John Kerrigan: Notes from the Home Front: Contemporary British Poetry

Articles

K.M. Newton: Allegory in Trollope’s The Warden

John Coastes: Pater’s Apologia: ‘The Child in the House’

New Impressions VI

Philip Horne: F.R. Leavis and the Great Tradition

Reviews

Philip Connell on Slavery, Empathy and Pornography by Marcus Connell

Katherine Montwieler on Fatal Women of Romanticism by Adriana Cracium

Stephen James on Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter


21. Volume LIV January 2004 No.1

Critical Opinion

Duncan Wu: Editing Wordsworth’s Fragments

Articles

David Cunnington: Donne’s New Days

Michael B. Prince: Editing Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks

New Impressions V

A.D. Nuttall: Auerbach’s Mimesis

Reviews

Judith Hawley on Strene, The Moderns, and the Novel by Thomas Keymer

Thomas K. Meier on British Discovery Literature and the Rise of the Global Commerce by Anna Neill

Robert Morrisson on the Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau’s ‘Somewhat Remarkable’ Life by Deborah Anna Logan

Janet Gezari on Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History by Heather Glen


22. Volume LIII October 2003 No. 4

Critical Opinion

John Wilthshire: Decolonising Mansfield Park

Articles

Jon Talbot: Johnson’s Classical Mottoes

Douglas Kerr: Conrad’s Magic Circles

Tim Kendall: Keith Douglas and Self-Elegy

Reviews

Alastair Fowler on Oxford English Literary History, volume ii 1350-1547: Reform and Cutural Revolution by James Simpson; Oxford English Literary History, volume viii: 1830-1880: The Victorians by Philip Davis

Ralph Pite on the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume xvi: Poetical Works edited by J.C.C Mays

Jane Stabler on Jane Austen and the Theatre by Penny Gay; Speaking Volumes: Women, Writing and Speech in the Age of Austen by Patricia Howell Michaelson


23. Volume LIII July 2003 No.3

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Linda Colley: Perceiving Low Literature: The Captivity Narrative

Articles

Paul Hammond: Marvell’s Pronouns

Mark Ford: Elizabeth Bishop at the Water’s Edge

Raphael Inglebien: From Hardy to Yeats? Larkin’s Poetry of Ageing

Critical Opinion

J.A. Burrow: Should we leave Medieval Literature to the Medievalists?

New Impressions IV

Colin Burrow: C.S. Lewis and the Allegory of Love

Review

Jonathan Mulrooney on the Tradition and the Individual Poem: An Inquiry into Anthologies by Anne Ferry

24. Volume LIII April 2003 No. 2

Critical Opinion

Matthew Reynolds: Browning and Translationese

Articles

Kirstie Blair: John Keble and the Rhythm of Faith

Archie Burnett: Silence and Allusion in Housman

Reviews

Paul Davis on the Poems of John Dryden. Vols. Iii and iv: 1686-1693 and 1693-1696 edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins

Katherine Turner on Designing the Life of Johnson: The Lyell Lecturers in Bibliography, 2001-2 by Bruce Redford; Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill

Peter Rawlings on George Eliot and the British Empire by Nancy Henry

 
25. Volume LIII January 2003 No.1

Critical Opinion

Jim McCue: Uncritical Times

Articles

Matthew Campbell: Yeats in the Coming Times

Stephen James: Geoffrey Hill and the Rhetoric of Violence

New Impressions III

Lisa Rodensky: Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity

Reviews

Dennis Flynn on Walton’s Lives: Conformist Commemorations and the Rise of Biography by Jessica Martin

David Fairer on Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Dustin Griffin

G.W. Bowersock on Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and his Reputation 1776-1815 by David Womersley

Rosemary Ashton on Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

26. Volume II October 2002 No. 4

Critical Opinion

Laurence Lerner: Reading The Wings of the Dove

Articles

Dennis Costa: Language in Smart’s Jubilate Agno

Andrew Radford: The Gentleman’s Estate in Ford’s Parade’s End

Reviews

Richard McCabe on the Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, volume ii: The Elegies edited by Ted-Larry Pebworth, Gary A.Stringer, Ernest W. Sullivan II, Dennis Flynn and Theodore J. Sherman
James Jayo on Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry from Burns to Heaney by Fiona Stafford

Maria Gapotchenko on God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson

Alison Hickey on the Realms of Verse, 1820-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building by Matthew Reynolds

Jason Harding on I.A. Richards: Selected Works, 1919-1938 edited by John Constable

27. Volume II July 2002 No.3

Critical Opinions

Sean Burke: The Biographical Imperative

Stephen Wall: Ian Hamilton and the Poet’s Life

Derek Roper: T.S. Eliot;s ‘La Fiflia Che Piange’: A Picture without a Frame

New Impressions II

Michael Dobson: Wilson Knight’s Wheel of Fire

Reviews

Michael Bawtree on Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan by Tiffany Stern

Eldrid Herrington on Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by Helen Jackson

Robert Morrison on William Hazlitt, Selected Writings edited by Duncan Wu

Matthew Reynolds on the Poets’ Dante edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff

Bret Wunderli on The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ by Sebastian D.G. Knowles

28. Volume LII April 2002 No.2

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Stefan Collini: Eliot Among the Intellectuals

Articles

Erik Gray: Sonnet Kisses: Sidney to Barrett Browning

New Impressions I

Bernard O’Donoghue: Wimsatt’s Verbal Icon

Reviews

Evan Willner on Literature as Communication: The Foundations of Mediating Criticism by Roger D. Sell

Helen Taylor Robinson on Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading by Mary Jacobus

Stefano Evangelista on the Rescue of Romanticism: Walter pater and John Ruskin by Kenneth Daley

Constantine Contogenis on Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H.Gass

Andrew Hagiioannu on Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism by John Carlos Rowe


29. Volume LII January 2002 No. 1

Critical Opinions

Derek Hughes: Race, Gender, and Scholarly Practice: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Brain Southam: ‘Rears’ and ‘Vices’ in Mansfield Park

Articles

Jonathan Gibson: Sidney’s Arcadias and Elizabethan Courtiership

Angela Leighton: Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism

Reviews

Marilyn Claire Ford on Social Authorship and the Advent of Print by Margaret J.M. Ezell

Karina Williamson on The Poetics of Empire: A study of James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane by Jon Gilmore

William H. Pritchard on the Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader


30. Volume II January 2002 No. 1

Critical Opinions

Derek Hughes: Race, Gender, and Scholary Practice: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Brian Southam: ‘Rears’ and ‘Vices’ in Mansfield Park

Articles

Jonathan Gibson: Sidney’s Arcadias and Elizabethan Courtiership

Angela Leighton: Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism

Reviews

Marilyn Claire Ford on Social Authorship and the Advent of Print by Margaret J.M. Ezell

Karina Williamson on the Poetics of Empire: A study of James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane by John Gilmore

William H. Pitchard on The Letters of Kingsley Amis edited by Zachary Leader

31. Volume LI October 2001 No. 4

Critical Opinion

David Ellis: Black Comedy in Shakespeare

Articles

John Richardson: Swift, A Modest Proposal and Slavery

Robert Morrison: Poe’s De Quincey, Poe’s Dupin

Reviews

Phillip Smallwood on A History of English Literature by Michael Alexander

Mark A. Pedreira on Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson by David F. Venturo

Erik Gray on Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon edited by Kenneth Haynes

David Pascoe on Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald R. Thomas

Chris Buttram on Modernist Patterns in Literature and the Visual Arts by Murray Roston


32. Volume LI July 2001 No. 3

Critical Opinion

Peter Robinson: Pretended Speech Acts in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Articles

Brian Cheadle: Work in Our Mutual Friend

Matthew Bevis: Dickens in Public

Reviews

Jean Wilson on Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age edited by Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman

Adrian Poole on Conrad and Women by Susan Jones; The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture and Subjectivity by Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Jennifer Formichelli on Eliot’s dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art by Ronald Schuchard

Ronald Gaskell on Robert Graves’s Complete Poems edited by Beryl Graves’s and Dunstan Ward

33. Volume LI April 2001 No. 2

F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture

Frank Kermode: Literary Criticism: Old and New Styles

Articles

Lukas Erne: Donne and Christ’s Spouse

Adrian Hunter: Beckett and the Joycean Short Story

Reviews

Kaara L. Peterson on Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies by Philippa Berry

Dee Mondschein on the Dunciad in Four Books by Alexander Pope, edited by Valerie Rumbold
Bernard Richards on Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne

Peter Rawlings on The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent. Selected Essays: Lionel Trilling edited by Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves edited by John Rodden


34. Volume LI January 2001 No. 1
Fiftieth Anniversary Number

T.S. Eliot: The Defects of Kipling (1909)

Christopher Ricks: A Note on ‘The Hollow Men’ and Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide

Douglas Gray: Gavin Douglas and ‘the gret prynce Eneas’

Emrys Jones: Reclaiming Early Shakespeare

Barbara Everett: Donne and Secrecy

Ian Donaldson: Perishing and Surviving: The Poetry of Donne and Jonson

A.D. Nuttall: Browning’s Grammarian: Accents Uncertain?

Martin Dodsworth: Empson and the Trick of It

Valentine Cunningham: Fact and Tact

John Bayley: Creating, or Recreating, the Dead

John Fuller: ‘ Prescience’

Jeremy Treglown: Bateson and the TLS

Seamus Perry: E in C as a Critical Forum

Stephen Wall: Editorial Postscript


35. Index to Volumes I – L
















 

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