Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 0008-199X - ISSN (Online) 1471-6836 Published by Oxford University Press[396 journals]
Abstract: Joseph Darlington is Programme Leader for BA(Hons) Digital Animation with Illustration at Futureworks Media School. He was awarded a 2013 Harry Ransom Fellowship to conduct research in their Burgess archive. PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy032 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Perry S. Pages: 301 - 324 Abstract: On 11 November 1985 a service was held at Westminster Abbey to mark the unveiling of a memorial to commemorate the lives of those poets who fought in the First World War. Among the speakers was the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and it was on this occasion that he described Edward Thomas, one of sixteen poets to have their name inscribed on the memorial stone, as ‘the father’ of modern poetry.11 Hughes’s remark tends to be interpreted as a reference to the way in which Thomas’s poetry continues to shape the work of those who came after him. But Hughes’s view of Thomas as a paternal figure serves as a timely reminder that he was also a father in a literal sense and, moreover, that his bond with his children acted as an important stimulus for his writing. Guy Cuthbertson notes that: PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy026 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Dumke S; Johnston F. Pages: 325 - 342 Abstract: Crotchet Castle (1831), his sixth work of fiction, secured Peacock’s reputation as ‘the wittiest writer in England’.11 The key figure in the tale, Mr Crotchet, is also a vanishing one; recently retired from the City, he is hungry for chat and dispute. A man who is ‘very hospitable in his establishment, and liberal in his invitations’, he gathers each year a troupe of experts, cranks, and quacks to argue with one another for his pleasure. He says little himself, beyond remarking: PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy025 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Nickerson A. Pages: 343 - 359 Abstract: But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint – (‘The Dry Salvages’)11 PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy017 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Lipman J. Pages: 360 - 382 Abstract: The Cambridge Quarterly endows a prize for the dissertation gaining the highest marks in the final Cambridge University English Honours examination. The article printed here is the text, complete but excluding some of the critical apparatus, of the Prize Essay for 2018. PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy023 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Darlington J. Pages: 383 - 387 Abstract: The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words by ClarkeJim. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. £79.99. ISBN 9 7833 1966 4118 PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy012 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Authors:Williams J. Pages: 387 - 394 Abstract: Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by UglowJenny. Faber & Faber, 2017. £25. ISBN 9 7805 7126 9549 PubDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy020 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 4 (2018)
Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
[396 journals]
