Publications of the Modern Language Association of America EDITED BY PERCY WALDRON LONG VOLUME LXII PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE ASSOCIATION PRINTED BY THE GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING COMPANY MENASHA, WISCONSIN 1947 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Don Cameron Allen , 1951 The Johns Hopkins University Albert C. Baugh , 1951 University of Pennsylvania Walter Blair , 1950 University of Chicago J. H. Boneante , 1950 Princeton University Louis I. Bredvold , 1948 University of Michigan Samuel C. Chew , 1949 Bryn Manor College William L. Fichter , 1949 Brown University Orie W. Long , 1951 Williams College Henri M. Peyre , 1953 Yale University Alexander H. Schutz , 1952 Ohio State University Otto Springer , 1952 University of Pennsylvania Rene Wellek , 1951 Yale University CONTENTS I. Old English Riddle No. 57. By Erika von Erhardt -Siebold 1 II. Impersonal haber in Old Spanish. By William T. Starr .... 9 III. The Fleurs de toutes vertus and Christine de Pisan’s L’Epttre d’Othea. By Curt F. Buhler ................................................................. 32 IV. Sur la genese de Pantagruel. By Marcel Franjon .............. 45 V. Spoken Letters in the Comedias of Alarcon, Tirso, and Lope. By T. Earle Hamilton ......................................................................... 62 VI. The Relation of Sherry’s Treatise of Schemes and Tropes to Wilson’s Arte of Rhetorique. By G. J. Engelhardt .............................. 76 VII. Sir Philip Sidney’s Letter to the Camerarii. By A. Philip Mc Mahon ................................................................................................ 83 VIII. Bacon and Guicciardini. By Vincent Luciani ................... 96 IX. The Comic Humours: A New Interpretation. By Henry L. Snuggs .......................................................................................................... 114 X. The Veracity of Spence’s Anecdotes. By Austin Wright . . . . 123 XI. Walker’s Influence on the Pronunciation of English. By Esther K. Sheldon .............................................................................. 130 XII. The Background and Development in English Criticism of the Theories of Generality and Particularity. By Scott Elledge . . 147 XIII. Helena: vom Mythos zur Person. By Oskar Seidlin ........ 183 XIV. Character-Types of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Zola. By Jared Wenger .......................................... ............................................. 213 XV. The Shadow of the Glen and the Widow of Ephesus. By David H. Greene ................................................................................... 233 XVI. Uber das Verhaltnis von Sage und Literatur. By Ernst Alfred Philippson ................................................................................. 239 XVII. The Structure of the “Concrete Universal” in Literature. By W. K. Wimsatt , Jr ........................................................................... 262 XVIII. Sovereignty in Chretien’s Yvain. By Alfred Adler . ... 281 XIX. New Light on Oriental Sources for Wolfram’s Parzival and other Grail Romances. By Helen Adolf ............................................ 306 XX. Arabe sZ>Esp. j-Esp. si > Arabe ch. By Amado Alonso . ... 325 XXI. Symphonic Imagery in Richard II. By Richard D. Altick ....................................................................................................... 339 XXII. The Position of Thomas Dekker in Jacobean Prison Literature. By Phillip Shaw ................................................................ 366 XXIII. Horace’s Influence on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleo- patra. By Perry D. Westbrook .......................................................... 392 XXIV. Neo-Classical Criticism of the Ode for Music. By Robert M. Myers ................................................................................................. 399 XXV. Chateaubriand—Critic of the French Renaissance. By Carlos Lynes , Jr ................................................................................... 422 XXVI. Faust und die Natur. By Ernst Jockers ......................... 436 XXVII. Samuel Rogers: Man of Taste. By Donald Weeks . ... 472 XXVIII. Keats and Hazlitt: A Record of Personal Relation- ship and Critical Estimate. By Clarence D. Thorpe . ..'................ 487 XXIX. The Dramatic Monologue. By Ina Beth Sessions ........ 503 XXX. The Significance of the Dog in Flaubert’s Education Senti- mentale. By Marianne Bonwit ............................................................ 517 XXXI. Broch’s Death of Vergil: Program Notes. By Hermann J. Weigand ................................................................................................... 525 Comment and Criticism : 1. “Pushed” or “Painted”? {Inferno, ix, 1). 2. Une Bibliographic supplementaire des dictionnaires du franfais moderne. 3. Note on the Correspondence of Camus. 4. Camus de Belley: Addendum. 5. The Influence of Ibsen on Joyce: Addendum................................................................................................. 555 Meeting of the Executive Council............................................................. 581 XXXII. The Vocabulary of the Old English Poems oh Judgment Day. By Robert J. Menner ................................................................ 583 XXXIII. Chaucer’s Use of the Teseida. By Robert A. Pratt . . 598 XXXIV. Belphoebe’s Misdeeming of Timias. By Allan H. Gilbert ..................................................................................................... 622 XXXV. A History of Fairfax Criticism. By Charles C. Bell .. 644 XXXVI. Shakespeare’s Shrew and Greene’s Orlando. By Ray - mond A. Houk ......................................................................................... 657 XXXVII. The Lucretian “Return upon Ourselves” in Eighteenth Cehtury Theories of Tragedy. By Baxter Hathaway ..................... 672 XXXVIII. “A Severe Animadversion on Bossu.” By Loyd Douglas ................................................... 690 XXXIX. Faust und die Natur (Schlufi). By Ernst Jockers . ... 707 XL. The Imitation of the Ideal: Polemic of a Dying Classicism. By Helen T. Garrett .......................................................................... 735 XLI. Milton’s Influence on Wordsworth’s Early Sonnets. By John Bard Mc Nulty ............................................................................ 745 XLII. Manfred’s Remorse and Dramatic Tradition. By Bert - rand Evans .............................................................................................. 752 XLIII. Shelley’s On Life. By Frederick L. Jones ....................... 774 XLIV. Cooper and the Barbary Coast. By Harold H. Scudder 784 XLV. Caliban the Bestial Man. By John E. Hankins ................ 793 XLVI. Barres and Pascal. By Reino Virtanen ............................ 802 XLVII. The Tinker’s Wedding, a Revaluation. By David H. Greene ..................................................................................................... 824 XLVIII. Anti-Statism in German Literature. By Thomas A. Riley ......................................................................................................... 828 XLIX. The Quintessence of Idealism; or, The Slaves of Duty. By Arthur H. Nethercot .......... *............................................................. 844 L. Dogma und Dichtung des Mittelalters. By Samuel Singer . . 861 LI. Some Geographical Problems of the Oxford Roland. By Edwin B. Place ...................................................................................... 873 LII. Conall Core and the Corco Luigde. By Vernam Hull ........ 887 LIII. Chaucer’s Final -e in Rhyme. By James G. Southworth ... 910 LIV. Spenser’s Morrell and Thomalin. By Paul E. Mc Lane . ... 936 LV. Doctor Faustus and A Shrew. By Raymond A. Houk ............ 950 LVI. The Death Wish of. John Donne. By Donald Ramsay Roberts .................................................................................................... 958 LVII. Milton’s Attitude Towards Women in the History of Britain. By Edward S. Le Comte ........................................................ 977 LVIII. Henry Fielding and the Writers of Heroic Romance. By Arthur L. Cooke ................................................................................... 984 LIX. Edward Burney’s Illustrations to Evelina. By T. C. Duncan Eaves .............................................................. ......................................... 995 LX. Mary Wollstonecraft, Analytical Reviewer. By Ralph M. Wardle ......................... ;................................. ....................................... 1000 LXI. Hartley, Pistorius, and Coleridge. By Hoxie N. Fairchild 1010 LXII. Alastor: a Reinterpretation. By Evan K. Gibson ............. 1022 LXIII. The Meaning of Shelley’s “Mont Blanc.” By I. J. Rap - stein .......................................................................................................... 1046 LXIV. The Meaning of “Fellowship with Essence” in Endymion. By Newell F. Ford ............................................................................... 1061 >■ LXV. Poe and Mesmerism. By Sidney E. Lind ............................ 1077 LXVI. Browning’s Knowledge of Music. By Herbert E. Greene ..................................................................................................... 1095 LXVII. The Silent Foot in Pentameter Verse. By Frederick Bracher .................................................................................................... 1100 LXVIII. Les Debuts litteraires de Pierre Lasserre. By Selim Ezban ........................................................................................................ 1108 LXIX. Brockes Religion. By Hans M. Wolff .............................. 1124 LXX. Anglicisms in French—Notes on Their Chronology, Range, and Reception. By Stephen De Ullmann ............................ 1153 LXXI. On the Origin of the Grammarians’ Rules for the use of shall and will. By J. R. Hulbert .......................................................... 1178 Acts of the Executive Council............................................................... 1182