Item #381883 Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn / edited by René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro. René Wellek.

Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn / edited by René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro

1979, First Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #381883
ISBN: 0198126123

Physical description: xxiv, 417 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes: "A list of the published writings of James Marshall Osborn": pages 395-402. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: James Marshall Osborn (1906-1976) / René Wellek -- Jim Osborn : some personal notes / David Daiches -- Hamlet's skimmington / Richard Leighton Greene -- The murder of Falstaff, David Jones, and the 'disciplines of war' / John Barnard -- Dean Donne's monument in St. Paul's / Helen Gardner -- The poetics of the critical act : Dryden's dealings with rivals and predecessors / Earl Miner -- The discovery of the date of Mac Flecknoe / David M. Vieth -- Admiration in the comedies of Thomas Southerne / Eugene M. Waith -- Admiration in the comedies of Thomas Southerne / Eugene M. Waith -- Pope's copy of Chaucer / Maynard Mack -- A supplement to The Portraits of Alexander Pope / John Riely and W.K. Wimsatt -- Down Chancery Lane / James Sutherland -- The Chesterfield House library portraits / David Piper -- Johnson's first club / James L. Clifford -- John Black and Montesquieu : the search for a correspondence / Robert Shackleton -- William Blackstone and the legal chairs at Oxford / Lucy Sutherland -- New anecdotes of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / Robert Halsband -- Thomas Percy, Don Quixote, and Don Bowle / Cleanth Brooks -- What do we do when two texts differ? She Stoops to conquer and textual criticism / Tom Davis and Susan Hamlyn -- Dr. Burney, 'Joel Collier', and Sabrina / Roger Lonsdale -- Pusuing Sheridan / Cecil Price -- The application of thought to an eighteenth-century text : The School for scandal / F.W. Bateson -- The term 'conceit' in Johnson's literary criticism / Donald Greene -- Edmond Malone, Horace Walpole, and Shakespeare / Wilmarth S. Lewis -- The apotheosis of Voltaire / Bernard N. Schilling -- Byron's songs of innocence : the poems to 'Thyrza' / Jean H. Hagstrum -- A list of the published writings of James Marshall Osborn / Alvaro Ribeiro. Subjects: Osborn, James M. (James Marshall) 1906-1976. Donne, John 1572-1631 Tomb. Donne, John 1572-1631 ; Portraits
Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 ; Portraits. Osborn, James Marshall ; Bibliography. Pope, Alexander. Chesterfield House (London, England) ; Catalogues. English literature History and criticism. Literature english.
Literature history.

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