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John Donne: Ignatius His Conclave
AN EDITION OF THE LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXTS
WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY
Edited by
TIMOTHY HEALY, S.].,
Fordham University.
This is an edition of
'both the Latin and English texts of John Donne's satire on Jesuits and on
religious controversy itself. The texts are based on the 17th century printinga
of the work. An introduction relates Donne's jesting tract
to
the serious ecclesias–
tical controversies of the time, particularly to the exchanges between James I
and Cardinal Bellarmine. The commentary makes the references and allusions
in the text understandable and shows the range of Donne's reading.
$12.50
The Queen Declined
WILLOBIE HIS AVISA; AN INTERPRETATION,
WITH THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
By
N. B. deLUNA,
University of Alberta.
Professor deLuna offers the first
comprehensive solution to an intriguing Elizabethan
roman
Ii
clef
that has long
baffled literary historians.
Willobie His Avisa
has attracted attention
chiefly
because it contains the earliest explicit allusion to Shakespeare. Now the
poell1J
can be seen as a fascinating covert commentary on two of the great questions
of that age: whether Elizabeth remained
virgo intacta
and why the Queen
declined to wed.
$6.25
Popular Fiction Before Richardson
By
JOHN
J.
RICHETTI,
Columbia University.
This is a study of those prose
narratives which were written and widely read in England during the first forty
years of the eighteenth century, but which have been hitherto neglected or
despised by historians of the novel. The author makes no claims for these works
as literary achievements. They are seen rather as vigorous and highly successful
commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes like the criminal, the traveler–
merchant, the persecuted maiden, and the aristocratic seducer.
$7.75
The Central Self
A STUDY IN ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN IMAGINATION
By
PATRICIA M. BALL,
University of London.
In this closely argued book,
Dr. Ball analyzes the imaginative process of self-understanding that emerged as
a characteristic feature of English Romantic poetry and that, acquiring fresh
creative force in the Victorian period, has been transmitted to our
own
times
as a determining principle of the contemporary imagination. Dr. Ball considen
the distinction between the poet speaking directly in his own voice and the
~pulse
to dramatize utterance, and shows how these "polar" tendencies coexist
In
the work of a number of poets. The writers whose work she discusses include
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, T. S. Eliot, and Yeats.
(Th,
Athlone Press. )
$5.95
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