Wimsatt, James

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Nature and its background in The parliament of fowls and Piers Plowman 1968 688 The allegorical figure of Nature has been prominent in English literature since about 1350 and bears with it a long and changing literary tradition. Medieval authors who personified Nature adopted those aspects of this goddess which best suited their...
The Roberts English Series : an analysis 1969 1667 The general acceptance of Noam Chomsky's theory of transformational grammar has polarized opinion among educators, some viewing it as no more fruitful than the school grammar it replaces, others ascribing to it vital powers for laying open language s...
An approach to characterization in Chaucer 1977 890 Criticism of Chaucer's characters in Troilus and Criseyde has been profoundly marked by a controversy over the nature of Chaucer's approach to poetics. On the one hand, there are those critics who approach Chaucer from the modern standpoint, seeking ...
Artistic integrity in Woodstock 1970 232 Study of the anonymous Elizabethan drama Woodstock has heretofore been directed externally to the play's relationship to Marlowe's Edward II and to Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Richard II. Much attention has been devoted to an explanation of the lite...
Style in Malory's book of Balin 1977 433 The purpose of this study is to reveal the beginning of Malory's selfconscious artistry as it is exhibited in his book of Balin. I attempt to reveal this through an examination of his prose style, primarily by viewing the changes lie makes in his Fre...
English shepherds' carols and the medieval arts 1974 444 The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the medieval age. Links exist between the visual arts, the performing arts, and the literature of the Middle Ages through a common nourishing soil: the Catholic...