{"title":"<scp>Paul J Hecht</scp>. <i>What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse</i>","authors":"Giulio J Pertile","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad031","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Paul J Hecht. What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse Get access Paul J Hecht. What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse. Pp. xii+203. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardback, £60. Giulio J Pertile Giulio J Pertile University of St Andrews, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume 74, Issue 315, June 2023, Pages 561–563, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad031 Published: 10 April 2023 Article history Received: 23 February 2023 Editorial decision: 20 March 2023 Accepted: 28 March 2023 Corrected and typeset: 10 April 2023 Published: 10 April 2023","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135543690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barbara C. Morden. The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity","authors":"D. Cook","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115401748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mark Canuel. The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism","authors":"N. Halmi","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122453956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon Jackson. George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture","authors":"J. Crockford","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128421827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chris Townsend. George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language","authors":"T. Milnes","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127665966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nancy Yousef. The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day","authors":"Maxwell Sater","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115073722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A ‘Polyphonic Score’: Basil Bunting’s Persian Condensations","authors":"R. Abbas","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 1932, Basil Bunting was lodging with the Pounds in Genoa when he first encountered a French manuscript translation of Abul-Qasem Firdausi’s classical Persian epic the Shahnameh (1010). Upon realizing that the manuscript was incomplete, Bunting decided there was ‘nothing to do but learn Persian and read Firdausi, so I undertook that’. By 1942 his knowledge of Persian was good enough for the Ministry of Information to send him to Iran with the Royal Airforce, at which point he toured the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Africa. Through these travels, and in particular his time in Iran, he discovered renewed possibilities for his personal and poetic life. His engagement with classical Persian literature over the 1940s was extensive and allowed him to eventually compose masterful translations of canonical classical Persian poets. I argue that his later translations, especially those written from 1947, demonstrate how translating Persian poetry refined Bunting’s Poundian poetics of condensation. I show that this synthesis produced formally and generically pluralistic poems that straddle multiple cultures, such as Odes 35 (1947) and 36 (1948). Through an analysis of The Spoils (1951), I explore the way in which Bunting’s own poetry was inflected by the Arabo-Persian ‘bait’ such that its literary traditions were made resonant with Anglophone ones. I then conclude by illustrating how the translations, the later odes, and The Spoils enabled him to write his irreducibly multiple magnum opus Briggflatts (1965).","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128371789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Latin Poem by Joseph Addison","authors":"Paul Davis","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Known almost exclusively now as the author of The Spectator and Cato, Joseph Addison was also highly regarded throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a Latin poet. This article presents a new addition to the canon of Addison’s Latin verse: a 57-line hexameter poem entitled Arcus Triumphalis which survives in a unique manuscript copy recently acquired by Addison’s alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford. The article begins by describing the manuscript (scans of the leaves containing Addison’s poem are included), detailing its likely genesis and confirming its attribution of the poem to Addison. Then it reconstructs the contexts of the poem, which describes a firework display put on in St James’s Square on the evening of 2 December 1697 to celebrate William III’s triumphal return to London after concluding the Peace of Ryswick. A third section provides a critical reading of the poem, concentrating on its surprising presentation of William III and its bold use of ekphrasis. The article concludes by assessing the place of Arcus Triumphalis in Addison’s career, in relation to the early development of his Whiggism and as a forerunner of several of his definitive concerns in The Spectator: privacy and the public sphere, urban spectacle, and the aesthetics of looking. An edited text of the poem and an English translation are provided in an appendix.","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136091813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ben Higgins. Shakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade","authors":"R. Loughnane","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125797373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mark Faulkner. A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English","authors":"L. Ashe","doi":"10.1093/res/hgad027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgad027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":255318,"journal":{"name":"The Review of English Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129651770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}