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KARL SHAPIRO
IN DEFENSE OF IGNORANt::E
A
collection of essays which may form the cornerstone
of a new revolution in poetry.
$4.00
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RANDOM BOllSB
The Power of Satire
Magic, Ritual, Art
By Robert C. Elliott
Satire
has
enjoyed an amazing con–
tinuity, from its earliest manifesta–
tions in I?rimitive magic and incanta–
tion to
Its
use
by
modern writers.
UNIVERSITY
PRESS
God, Man, and Satan
Patterns of Christian Thought
and Life in Paradise Lost,
Pilgrim's Pre>gress, and the
Great Theologians
By
Roland Mushat
Frye
Mr. Elliott traces the evolution of
The author treats Milton'.
Para-
satire through the ages from magic
diu
Lost
as a Christian vision of
and ritual through the formal verse
reality and Bunyan's
Pi16rim't Proi-
satire of Rome, the rich literature of
ress
as an allegory of Christian life
medieval Ireland, and the well-known
and analyzes these two worlis both
masterpieces,
T,mon ot Athens, L.
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th"cesolarogei~ounexpressto
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Misanthrope,
and
GullIVer's Traii.ls,
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to the works of such modern writers
fer valid insights into present-day
as Wyndham Lewis and Roy Camp.
theological ferment, and the con-
bell.
1j:is study demonstrates both
tributions of such modern thinkers as
the vi!aI literary life of satire and
Kierkegaard, Niebuhr, and Tillich
the place of the satirist in society.
are shown to illumine their design.
912 pages. $6.00
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