When I first read R.A.K. Mason's poems several years ago, I was inclined to see the Christ figure in them as essentially - or at least most frequently - a reflection of the author himself, in the role of a victim of his ...

This article aims to demonstrate the differences and similarities between manuscripts containing poems by Wyatt and 'The Court of Venus'. The manuscripts examined include the Egerton Manuscript, the Devonshire Manuscript, ...

Although scholarship has accumulated much valuable material, I believe that the main advance in our approach to Herbert in recent decades has been in the area of criticism. And this is where most progress was needed, in ...

Daalder's highly favourable review of Diane Wolfthal's book "Images of Rape" The Heroic Tradition and its Alternatives" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Daalder's review of Michael Hattaway's book "A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).

Daalder's review of "The Idea of the Renaissance" by William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

Shakespeare uses such words as 'mad' and 'madness' more often in Twelfth Night than in any of his other plays, so it is a reasonable assumption that he was interested in madness when he wrote it, and that this play will ...

Daalder's review of Sophie Carter's book "Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print and Culture" (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).