Notes and Queries

Papers
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Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy2
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick2
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
A New Jacopo Corbinelli’s Annotated Printed Book1
‘No Love Sincerer’: Byronian Intertextuality in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
Schubert’s ‘Adieu’ in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
An Early English Example of the ‘Kings are Gods’ Argument1
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply1
Construction in Spenser’s British Chronicle1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
The Book of Wisdom and the Dægweorc in the Old English Exodus1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary1
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and Puck’s Joke1
The Latin Epigraph of Jonson’s News from the New World Discovered in the Moon1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Womanly Noblesse and Chaucer’s Metrical Practice0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
Wuthering Heights’ Abundant Italics0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
On the Meanings of Decor and Dignitas in Bede’s Account of Cædmon0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
Antedatings of the OED Entry For ‘Keplerian, adj.’0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
OE Don, Macian, and Wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Pugliano’s Horatian Conceit: an Apulian Wordplay in Sidney’s Exordium to the Defenceof Poesy0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy Over a Tomb’0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
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
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’S Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Peace-Minded Critics of Tennyson’s Maud0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Dilige Deum &C’: Acquired Meaning and the Quotations in Piers Plowman0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
THOMAS FARNABY’S 1613 EDITION OF SENECA’S TRAGEDIES AND SHAKESPEARE’S JULIUS CAESAR0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
THE FAERIE QUEENE III.XII.10: BORROWINGS FROM IL LIBRO DEL CORTEGIANO, AND AN EMENDATION0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
The Expression to Fanny About0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
On the history of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with oed first usage corrections0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of the Magazines and Newspapers’0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Antedatings of The Oed Entry for ‘Eulerian, adj.’0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
Correction0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Stand in and be Counted0
Antedatings of the OED Entry for ‘Copernican, Adj.’0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
‘ARCADES’: MILTON AND STEVENS0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Thomas Ravenscroft: A Brief ‘Civil’ Discourse0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
An Unrecorded Middle English Bloodletting Verse in MS Ashmole 1438 (I)0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
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
Latches in Shakespeare0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Shakespeare’s Darling Buds: Sonnet 18, Line 30
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon By John Tillotson Against The Earl Of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
‘WRITEN IN TH’EIR’: THE COURTS IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S EPISTRE AU DIEU D’AMOURS AND THOMAS HOCCLEVE’S LETTER OF CUPID0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
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