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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1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