Winter 1986, Vol. 35, No. 2

Articles
"Let Them Take Example:" Failed Asceticism in Tennyson's "St. Simeon Stylites"
LARRY BRUNNER     17

Special Feature
Bells Chiming the Eleventh Hour: Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Three Processes of Civilization
PETER Y. CLARK     5

Book Reviews
Dwight H. Purdy, Joseph Conrad's Bible
ABRAHAM AVNI     33

Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ROY BATTENHOUSE     35

David C. Fowler, The Bible in Middle English Literature
PHILLIP C. BROADMAN     37

Bruno M. Damiani, "La Diana" of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching
WILLIAM C. BRYANT     38

Don Richard Cox, ed., Sexuality and Victorian Literature
DAVID L. DERUS     40

Lawrence Frank, Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self
CHARMAZEL DUDT     41

Jose C. Nieto, Mistico, poeta, rebelde, santo: En torno a San Juan de la Cruz
MARY E. GILES     42

Richard Kelly, Graham Greene
MARGARET HALLISSY     44

Judith Ruderman, D.H. Lawrence and the Devouring Mother. The Search for a Patriarchil Ideal of Leadership
JULIAN N. HARTT     45

John Hardy, Jane Austen's Heroines. Intimacy in Human Relationships
JOHN C. HAWLEY, S.J.     46

Chana Block, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and The Bible
NOEL J. KINNAMON     47

Ronald Schleifer and Robert Markley, eds., Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repition, and Criticism
WESLEY A. KORT     49

Suzanne Graver, George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form
THOMAS A. LANGFORD     51

Jerome McGann, The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
ROGER LUNDIN     52

John W. Erwin, Lyric Apocalypse. Reconstruction in Ancient and Modern Poetry
ARTHUR W. LYNIP     53

Beryl Schlossman, Joyce's Catholic Comedy of Language
DOMINIC MANGANIELLO     54

A.M. Allchin, The Joy of All Creation: An Anglican Meditation on the Place of Mary
DIANE K. MCCOLLEY     56

Diana Benet, Secretary of Praise: The Poetic Vocation of George Herbert
MICHAEL PIRET     58

David L. Edwards, Christian England (Volume Three): From the Eighteenth Century to the First World War
JOHN SOMMERVILLE     60

Poetry
Venetian Blinds with Apologies to Emily
BILL ELLIS     16

Nativity
THARIN WILLIAMSON     32

The Hemlock Tips Its Cup
ELIZABETH REVERE     62

The New Arithmetic
WILLIAM FABER     62

Sun in Shadow
THARIN WILLIAMSON     84