Notes and Queries

Papers
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An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
John Masefield2
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss2
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
Edward Howard’s The Man of Newmarket (1678) and the King’s Company’s Complaint Against Dryden1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll1
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick1
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere1
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life1
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)1
Sterne, Trollope, and Temptation1
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy1
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
A Pun On ‘Desultory’ in ‘The Ring of Time’0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
An Early Vernacular Annal on the First Crusade from Christ Church, Canterbury0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
Samuel Richardson’s Misattribution to Pliny in Sir Charles Grandison0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talkyng of the Love of God0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
The Meaning of Old English Oft in Beowulf, with Notes on UnfÆgne/unfÆge at Beowulf, lines 572b and 2291a0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: L. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and L. 193 ‘Dok’0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
‘The Flitting Phantoms of Iniquity’: A Spenserian Source for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Fancy’s Show Box: A Morality’ in the Ninth Canto of Book Two of The Faerie Queene0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
George Aitken’s Genealogy of Dr John Arbuthnot0
OUP accepted manuscript0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
A List of Fifty Toponyms in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy0
The Oldest English Lawyer Joke? Guthlac A, l. 265a and Christ II, l. 733a0
Two Versions of Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Revision0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
A Possible Source for the Term Mental Sight in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11.418 in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed I: 40
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
Jean R. Brink. The Early Spenser: ‘Minde on Honour Fixed’0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
The ‘[H]aterell’ as Blind-Fold in the York Pageant of ‘Christ’s Trial Before Herod’0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
‘Grandeza en la humildad’: The Further Story of Hopkins’s ‘In Honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez’0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
Provenance of Significant Manuscript Witness to Katherine Philips’ Poetry, WOR. MS. 58, Revisited0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Gower’s ‘Ovidian’ Source for line V.1283 of the Confessio Amantis0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Bad Sheep: References to Brain Infections in the Cloud of Unknowing0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
A Burlesque Middle English Mathematical Question0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
‘Mi Minde is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
OE don, macian, and wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
Books Received0
‘[T]hat Other Great Poet’: Double Falsehood, The Arden Shakespeare, and Further Evidence for Fletcher0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
John Gower and ‘John of Bridlington’: An Unnoticed Borrowing0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Stand in and be Counted0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘that Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
The Expression to Fanny About0
The Origins of £: S: D0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, John Donne, and William Perkins0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘to His Coy Mistress’?0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
A Possible Allusion to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 in East Coker IV0
Roger Daniel and the Printing of Francis Finch’s Friendship (1654)0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
Correction0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
Phineas and His Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Latches in Shakespeare0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Urquhart’s Pantochronochanon: What’s in the Name0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D’Argenville and the “Natural History of Shells” Series in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755–1759: A Supplement to the Union List0
An Unidentified Latin Poem by William Alabaster and its Translation by Abraham Cowley0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
Keats, Kean, and Othello0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
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