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In March 1642, his vehement dispute with Parliament drawing to a climax, Charles I left the London area and moved his court north. For the next four months, the Royalist [...]

The intertextual references between the 'Dialogus' of Tacitus and the letters of Pliny with regard to boar hunting are investigated. The clues in the letters of Pliny indicating the interactions between them and his pointed reference to boars as an allusion to a character in the 'Dialogus' are discussed.

This article describes how the manner in which Roman political history is portrayed in 'Agricola' reveals Tacitus' views on politics. Topics include political geography, conquest, allusion, imperialism, and realism.

Allusions to Pseudo-Hesiod's 'Shield of Heracles' occur in Vergil's description of the shield of Aeneas in 'Aeneid' 8. 617-731. The allusions help to convey a sense of the weaponry's destructive power.

The figure of Gesander in Valerius Flaccus alludes to that of Mezentius in the 'Aeneid.' Topics discussed include lexical correspondence, traces of the source in other authors, thematic similarity, the portrayal of father-and-son relationships, and Gesander's death.

This article discusses the manner in which nature and landscape are portrayed in the works of Louisa Anne Meredith. Topics include imagery, power, masculinity, colonialism, and allusion.

Martial's epigram imposes a satiric effect on the reader's interpretation of literary allusions. The boorish Euctus, the subject of the epigram, enjoys disrupting the merriment of his invited dinner guests. He annoyingly boasts of the mythical pedigree of his vast array of embossed silver goblets, but surprises them by ironically serving new wine in the supposedly ancient vessels. The character Euctus is seen as a combination of two satirical types. One is the owner of silverware who boasts of its false antiquity and the other is the vulgar and boorish host.

Apuleius is highly admired for his expert use of style with both archaic forms and neologisms. His propensity for allusion has also been much commented upon as he openly engages in corrective or competitive allusions in the fish chapters of 'Apology.' He uniquely uses obscene names when referring to fish, explaining that he is trying to supplement and correct Greek biological writers like Theophrastus and Aristotle. Likewise, Sallust has also gained a good reputation as an archaist and word-smith.

Most of the allusions contained in T.S. Eliot's 'Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar' have been uncovered, except for the phrase 'the seven laws.' Critics Laura Riding and Robert Graves asserted that the phrase's meaning could be discovered in Baedeker, the Classical Dictionary or the 'Merchant of Venice.' They stressed that this allusion illustrates the limited humorous appeal of modernist verse. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Drew and John Ruskin argued that the phrase alluded to the 'Seven Lamps of Architecture' and refered to seven moral-aesthetic principles., . . . Who clipped the lion's wings And flea'd his rump and pared his claws? Thought Burbank, meditating on Time's ruins, and the seven laws. (Complete Poems 29-32) T. [...]

'In Our Time,' Ernest Hemingway's collection of stories published in 1925, contains many allusions to T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land.' Both works employ broken images to convey the authors' view of the sterility and confusion of the modern world. More particularly, 'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot,' the title of the first story from 'In Our Time,' obviously refers to Eliot, especially since Hemingway often spelled Eliot's surname with two 'l's. The images and characters of Hemingway's stories parallel those of Eliot's poem.

Two of Ben Jonson's poems are related by an allusion which affects their meaning. 'An Execration Upon Vulcan', the 43rd poem in 'The Underwood' collection, has an ending couplet matching the opening couplet in the 47th poem, 'An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben.' The connecting allusion concerns fire, with a curse in the first poem alluded to as men's fortitude in the second poem. This allusion conveys a humorous self-mockery of the poet which would otherwise be missed., Two poems in The Underwood, #43 and #47, are connected in an unobtrusive fashion. The couplet ending the first poem, 'An Execration Upon Vulcan,' has the same rhyme--and virtually the [...]

The Golden Man and the Golden Age: The Relationship of English Poets and the New World Reconsidered David McInnis University of Melbourne mcinnisd@unimelb.edu.au David McInnis. 'The Golden Man and the [...]