NEW YALE BOOKS
THE POEMS OF EDWARD TAYLOR
EDITED BY DONALD E. STANFORD,
with
a F01"eword
by
Louis
L.
Martz.
This is the first comprehensive selection of the poems
of Edward Taylor, America's foremost Colonial poet, Con–
gregationalist minister in Westfield, Massachusetts, from
1671-1729.
May $10.00
THE LETTERS OF HERMAN MELVILLE
EDITED BY MERRELL R. DAVIS AND WILLIAM H. GILMAN.
These 274
letters and fragments are the most complete collection of Mel–
ville's letters ever assembled and include forty-two previously
unpublished. There are some excellent letters to Hawthorne,
Evert Duyckinck, and Richard Dana.
June
$6.50
THE PASTORAL ART OF ROBERT FROST
BY JOHN F. LYNEN.
The main theme of this ground-breaking
critical work is the basic design underlying the poetry of Robert
Frost.
It
relates Frost's pastoral art
to
the tradition from
Theocritus to Pope.
May $4.50
THE POLITICS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
BY DONALD J. GREENE.
This full-length treatment of the political
activities, ideas, and attitudes of Samuel Johnson shows the
modernity and complexity of his thought and his concern for
the "common voice of the multitude."
$5.50
JOHNSON BEFORE BOSWELL
BY BERTRAM H. DAVIS.
This study of Sir John Hawkins'
Life of
Samuel Johnson
performs a substantial service for Johnsonian
scholarship by rehabilitating Hawkins and pla<:ing him in the
forefront of Johnsonian biographers.
$4.50
WORDSWORTH AND SCHELLING
BY E. D. HIRSCH, JR.
The author's typological analysis elucidates
the important Romantic concepts by comparing the poetic
vision of Wordsworth with the philosophical thought of
Schelling.
$4.00
THEME AND STRUCTURE IN SWIFT'S
"TALE OF A TUB"
BY RONALD PAULSON.
The author explains the theme and struc–
ture of Swift's most difficult work and investigates the whole
spectrum of the stylistic problems it presents.
$4.50
THE STYLE OF "DON JUAN"
BY GEORGE M. RIDENOUR.
This penetrating study of Byron's epic
reveals the poet's "paradoxical vision" of the universe and does
full justice to the poem's richness of meaning and intricacy
of form.
$4.00
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Haven, Connecticut
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