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The Significance of the 'Tho' signs in Wyatt's Egerton Manuscript
(Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1987)
There are some features about the Egerton Manuscript 2711, containing Thomas Wyatt's verse amongst that of other authors, which scholars have found rather puzzling. In particular, there has been considerable controversy ...
William Shakespeare: Othello
(Flinders University English Discipline and South Australian English Teachers Association, 1991)
Othello is not often thought of as a play primarily concerned with madness, yet that is what it is.
Wyatt’s Proverbial ‘Though the wound be healed, yet a scar remains’
(Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co., 1986)
Tottel's anthology, Songes and Sonettes (1557), was published well after the death of both Wyatt and Surrey. To the best of our knowledge, Wyatt's poem CCXLIV had not appeared in print before then, as neither had Surrey's ...
Wyatt's Prosody Revisited
(Queens College of the City University of New York, 1977)
In this paper the author offers an entirely new view of Wyatt's prosody. The approach adopted and the conclusion derived from it should also prove pertinent to the study of prosody generally.
Wyatt’s ‘Patience’ Poems
(Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 1990)
Four poems starting with the word 'patience' are usually thought of as Wyatt's: 'Patience, though I have not', 'Patience for my device', Patience, for I have wrong', and 'Patience of all my smart'. Of these the first two ...
The Prosodic Significance of Donne's "Accidentals"
(Parergon, 1986)
In the case of Donne, we are confronted with two extraordinary facts which are of the greatest interest to those who wish to consider the question of what his text (as a poet) is held to be and what in fact Donne might ...
Review of "The Miltonic Moment" by Evans
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis group, 2000)
A favourable review of Martin Evans' book, "The Miltonic Moment" (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1998). Evans's thesis is that 'Milton's poems invariably depict the decisive instant in a story, a moment ...
Mandrakes and Whiblins in 'The Honest Whore'
(The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1997)
In Act I, scene ii of Thomas Dekker's The Honest Whore (1604), there occurs a dialogue between Viola, the wife of the linen-draper Candido, and her brother Fustigo. Fustigo comments that Candido must be either a mandrake ...