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The article offers criticism on the 15th-century riddle poem "I have a 3ong suster," written by an anonymous author. Topics examined include the definition of the word suster, which is believed to mean "beloved" or "sweetheart," possible sexual interpretations of the work and insights on the poem's exploration of identity.

The essay, reprinted from an earlier volume of the journal, presents a literary critique of the General Prologue from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." Focus is given to the prologue's focus on girdles, belts and similar objects as a theme in the work. Commentary highlights Chaucer's use of the objects to criticize the lack of virtues in the religious figures in the story.

This article discusses the literary career of poet Robert Lowell and his works. Near the middle of Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead, a new trope appears, one that will continue in several successive books, particularly those whose poems are often presented as daily notes--Notebook 1967-68, Notebook, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Following the poems of optical, epidermal, and neural sensitivity--Night Sweat, The Lesson, The Neo-Classical Urn, and Eye and Tooth--come poems of travel in which journeys appear as new contexts for that sensitization: Going To and Fro, Returning, Buenos Aires, and Dropping South: Brazil, present the strained, introspective speaker of Lowell's breakthrough phase, introduced in Life Studies, as increasingly vulnerable to and destabilized by the duress of travel. The rhetoric becomes murkier, the speaker more disoriented, as he moves from his center of gravity in New England. In Lowell, the disorientation of travel became a metaphor for, if not often a cause of, the disorientation of psychological illness. From this phase until the end of Lowell's life, travel was a texture used to generate fractured narratives of the troubled traveler's ego.

Reviews the book `Crediting Poetry,' by Seamus Henry.

Discusses T.S. Eliot's poem `To Walter de la Mare.' Literary style; Figures and symbolisms; Ghosts and illusions; Readings and interpretations.

Connects Mikhail Bakhtin's philosophy of social heteroglossia to the centrifugal, entropic energies of dialect writing. Inhabiting others' speech and actual sound; Issue of rhythmic phrasing and intonation; Interorientation of languages and co-presence of idioms as artistic search for dialectalisms.

The article offers criticism on the poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashberry. The author looks at the symbols and linguistic technique in the poem and the depiction of the poetic person. The article also discusses the attempts for transcending textual limitations and the reconsideration of the possibility of otherness.

The article reviews the book "Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution" by Thomas L. Reed Jr.

The article discusses the Old English poem "Juliana" by Cynewulf, with particular focus given to its use of rhetoric and the assertion of critics including Rosemary Woolf that it is an inferior, shallow work compared to the poet's earlier output. The poem's religious and cultural themes are also commented on.

The article offers criticism on the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by the English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron Byron. The author looks at the description of the lead character in the poem, the features of the poem, and the examination of the narration of the character in the poem. The article also discusses

The article presents criticism on the poem "Epipsychidion" by the English poet Percy Byssche Shelley. The author looks at the language used in the poem, the features of the poem, and the description of the character in the poem. The article also discusses Information on the linguistic correlatives in Shelley's poem.

Reviews the book 'Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson,' by Richard S. Peterson.

The article analyzes the poem "London" by Samuel Johnson. Particular attention is given to criticism of the poem by the scholar Walter Jackson Bate who argues that the poem is simplistic and conventional and that Johnson wrote the poem simply for financial reasons. The author frames his discussion within this position, exploring the sincerity and moral aspects of Johnson's poem. He also examines themes of poverty, insecurity, and virtue.

Discusses the use of the name Belinda as a character in the poem 'Rape of the Lock,' by Alexander Pope,' wherein names ending in inda signifies flirt, coquette or some morally questionable lady during the 17th century. Variations of names ending in inda; Description on the poem 'Cruell Clarinda'; Aim of Pope in using the name Belinda as a character in the poem.

The article provides an overview of criticism regarding the English poet Jonathan Swift's "scatological" poems, with particular focus given to critical reactions to their sexual, scatological, and misogynistic content. Poems including "The Progress of Beauty," "Strephon and Chloe," and "The Lady's Dressing Room" are commented on, and the application of psychoanalysis to Swiftian criticism is explored.

Reviews the book 'The Prelude: Book 5,' by Cornell Wordsworth.

The article discusses the Middle English poem "Sir Launfal" by Thomas Chestre, with particular focus given to the poem's relationship to its sources, the "Landevale" manuscript and the poem "Lanval, Graelent" by Marie de France. Chestre's use of structure and departures from his sources in style and content are also touched on.

Profiles poet Vicente Huidobro. His contributions to French poetry in the 1900s; Details on his poetic works; Emphasis on his development of the theory of pure creation of the poetic image.

Reviews the book 'The Old English Catalogue Poems,' by Nicholas Howe.