Publications
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The Realism of Luigi Capuana
(1979)
Despite a remote rural birth, in a small Sicilian town still not easily accessible, Capuana was to become a figure truly representative of Italian culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. He observed Garibaldi's ...
Matthew Arnold and Goethe
(1979)
Writing to Cardinal Newman in 1872, Arnold said that there are four people, 'in especial', from whom he had learned habits: Goethe, Wordsworth, Saint-Beuve, and Newman himself. His notebooks and reading lists confirm a ...
The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza
(1979)
A study of the Italian humanist Gasparino Barzizza, or Gasparinus de Bergamo, a grammarian lecturing on Seneca, Cicero, Virgil and Terence, among others, in early fifteenth-century Padua. Mercer draws on literary sources ...
The Early Poetry of Guittone d'Arezzo
(1976)
Guittone d'Arezzo's critical fortunes have risen over the past fifty years to the point where he now commands grudging respect from serious readers of Duecento literature. But his poetry remains lapidary, often wilfully ...
The Significance of Locality in the Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin
(1979)
Hölderlin's poetic world, seen at its most coherent in the mature poetry of 1800-02, is part classical and Homeric, part allegorical and vague, and part based on the true geography of his beloved homeland, Swabia — his ...