Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

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Volume 75

Thomas J. Schoenberg
Lawrence J. Trudeau

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 75
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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of LC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN LC, VOLUME 75, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Chaucer Review, v. 20, 1986, pp. 313-22. University Park. Copyright 1986 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. — Durham University Journal, v. 40, June, 1979. Reproduced by permission.

— ELH, v. 4, December, 1937. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission. — English Language Notes, v. IX, December, 1971. © copyrighted 1971, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission. —English Studies, v. 76, September, 1995. © 1995, Swets & Zeitlinger. Reproduced by permission. —French Studies, v. 25, April, 1971. Reproduced by permission. —Huntington Library Quarterly, v. 54, Fall, 1991. Reproduced with the permission of the Henry E. Huntington Library. —Journal of English and Germanic Philology, v. 67, April, 1968 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission of the University of Illinois Press. —Medium Aevum, v. 40, 1971; v. 64, Spring, 1995. Reproduced by permission. —Modern Language Quarterly, v. 28, September, 1967. Copyright © 1967, University of Washington. Reproduced by permission of Duke University Press. —Modern Language Review, v. 65, April, 1970. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1970. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author. —Greetham, D. C., from Modern Philology, v. 86, February, 1989. © 1989 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission. —Philological Quarterly, v. 72, Spring, 1993 for “‘I am al othir to yow than yee weene’: Hoccleve, Women, and the ‘Series,’” by Karen A. Winstead. © 1993 by The University of Iowa. Reproduced by permission of the author. —Proceedings of the British Academy, v. 68, 1982. © The British Academy 1983. Reproduced by permission. —The Romanic Review, v. XXV, January-March, 1934. Reproduced by permission. —Studies in English Literature, v. XV, Summer, 1975. © 1975 William Marsh Rice University. Reproduced by permission. —Studies in Philology, v. 55, October, 1958; v. 57, July, 1960; v. 69, July, 1972. Copyright © 1958, 1960, 1972 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. —Studies in the Literary Imagination, v. V, October, 1972. Copyright 1972 Department of English, Georgia State University. Reproduced by permission. —Tennessee Studies in Literature, v. XXV, 1980. Copyright © 1980, by The University of Tennessee Press. Reproduced by permission of The University of Tennessee Press. —Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 14, Spring, 1972 for “‘Men Most of All Enjoy, When Least They Do’: The Love Poetry of John Suckling,” by Raymond A. Anselment. Reproduced by permission of the University of Texas Press and the author.

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Barley, Tony. From “‘Upon Nothing’: Rochester and the Fear of Non-entity,” in Reading Rochester. Edited by Edward Burns. Liverpool University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Liverpool University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Burrow, J. A. From “Hoccleve and Chaucer,” in Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer. Edited by Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt. Cambridge University Press, 1990. © Cambridge University Press 1990. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author. —Burrow, John. From “Hoccleve’s ‘Series’: Experience and Books,” in Fifteenth-Century Studies. Edited by Robert F. Yeager. Archon Books, 1984. © 1984 Robert F. Yeager. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Clark, Stephen. From “‘Something Genrous in Meer Lust’?: Rochester and Misogyny,” in Reading Rochester. Edited by Edward Burns. Liverpool University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Liverpool University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Clayton, Thomas. From “‘At Bottom a Criticism of Life’: Suckling and the Poetry of Low Seriousness,” in Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben. Edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982, University of Pittsburgh Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Clayton, Thomas. From “General Introduction,” in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works. Edited by Thomas Clayton.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971. © Oxford University Press 1971. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. —de Soet, Frans Dirk. From Puritan and Royalist Literature in the Seventeenth Century. J. Waltman Jr. Delft, 1932. Reproduced by permission. —Erskine-Hill, Howard. From “Rochester: Augustan or Explorer?,” in Renaissance and Modern Essays: Presented to Vivian de Sola Pinto in celebration of his seventieth birthday. Edited by G. R. Hibbard. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. © Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1966. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author. —Everett, Barbara. From “The Sense of Nothing,” in Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester. Edited by Jeremy Treglown. Basil Blackwell, 1982. © Basil Blackwell Publisher 1982. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hammond, Brean and Paulina Kewes. From “A ‘Satyre against Reason and Mankind’ from page to stage,” in That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Edited by Nicholas Fisher. Manchester University Press, 2000. Copyright © Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Lancaster, Henry Carrington. From A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century, Part I: The Pre-Classical Period 1610-1634. The Johns Hopkins Press, 1929. Copyright 1929 by The Johns Hopkins Press. Reproduced by permission. —Main, C. F. From “The Right Vein of Rochester’s ‘Satyr’,” in Essays in Literary History. Edited by Rudolf Kirk and C.

F. Main. Rutgers University Press, 1960. Copyright © 1960 by Rutgers, The State University. Reproduced by permission. —Manning, Gillian. From “‘Artemiza to Chloe’: Rochester’s ‘female’ epistle,” in That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Edited by Nicholas Fisher. Manchester University Press, 2000. Copyright © Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Matulka, Barbara. From The Novels of Juan de Flores and Their European Diffusion: A Study in Comparative Literature. Institute of French Studies, 1931. Copyright, 1931, by B. Matulka. Reproduced by permission. —Paulson, Ronald. From “Rochester: The Body Politic and the Body Private,” in The Author in His Work: Essays on a Problem in Criticism. Edited by Louis L. Martz and Aubrey Williams. Yale University Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Quentin, David. From “The missing foot of ‘Upon Nothing’, and other mysteries of creation,” in That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Edited by Nicholas Fisher. Manchester University Press, 2000. Copyright © Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Righter, Anne. From Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume LIII. Oxford University Press, 1967. © The British Academy 1968. Reproduced by permission. —Rogers, Pat. From “‘An Allusion to Horace’,” in Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester. Edited by Jeremy Treglown. Basil Blackwell, 1982. © Basil Blackwell Publisher 1982. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Scanlon, Larry. From “The King’s Two Voices: Narrative and Power in Hoccleve’s ‘Regement of Princes’,” in Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530. Edited by Lee Patterson. University of California Press, 1990. © 1990 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —Schweitzer, Jerome W. From Georges de Scudery’s ‘Almahide”: Authorship, Analysis, Sources and Structure. The Johns Hopkins Press, 1939. Copyright 1939, The Johns Hopkins Press. Reproduced by permission. —Schweitzer, Jerome W. From “The Scudery’s Revisited: Georges de Scudery (1601-1667),” in Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley, North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, n. 72. Edited by George Bernard Daniel, Jr. Published 1968 by the University of North Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —Showalter, English , Jr. From The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782. Princeton University Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press. —Squier, Charles L. From Sir John Suckling . Twayne Publishers, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Torti, Anna. From The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures From Chaucer to Skelton. D. S. Brewer, 1991. © Anna Torti 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Wilcox, Helen. From “Gender and Artfullness in Rochester’s ‘Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover,’” in Reading Rochester. Edited by Edward Burns. Liverpool University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Liverpool University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN LC, VOLUME 75, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Hoccleve, Thomas, photograph. Hulton/Archive by Getty Images. Reproduced by permission. —Suckling, Sir John, engraving. The Library of Congress. —Wilmot, John, photograph. Hulton/Archive by Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.

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