Autumn 1989, Vol. 39, No. 1

Articles
The Poetry of Richard Wilbur- "The Splendor of Mere Being"
NATHAN A. SCOTT, JR.     7

Reverse Typology in Jude the Obscure
ELEANOR MCNEES     35

Love's Sentence: Domesticity as Religious Discourse in Robert Frost's Poetry
EDWARD J. INGEBRETSEN, S.J.     51

Dialogue
The Project of a Christian Poetics
MICHAEL EDWARDS     63

Review Essay
How and Why the Literary Establishment Caught Up with the Bible: Instancing the Book of Job
MARY ANN RADZINOWICZ     77

Book Reviews
Michael Edwards, Poetry and Possibility: A Study in the Power and Mystery of Words
LARRY ALLUMS     91

Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasionas, 1967-1988
BEATRICE BATSON     92

Wesley A. Kort, Story, Text, and Scripture: Literary Interests in Biblical Narrative
NORMAN R. CARY     94

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., "The Muses Common-Weale": Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century
ANTHONY LOW     95

Julia M. Walker, ed., Milton and the Idea of Woman
RAYMOND-JEAN FRONTAIN     96

William Veeder, Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny
JANICE WITHERSPOON NEULEIB     98

Robert Barth, S.J. Coleridge and the Power of Love
DAVID JASPER     99

Richard I. Pervo, Profit with Delight: The Literary Genre of the Acts of the Apostles
STEVEN C. WALKER     100

Janet L. Larson, Dickens and the Broken Scripture
JOHN WARNER     101

Brigid Boardman, Between Heaven and Charing Cross: The Life of Francis Thompson
CHARMAZEL DUDT     103

Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume I, 1898-1922
DOMINIC MANGANIELLO     104

Dana Greene, ed., Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy
ROBERT E. WRIGHT     105

Suzanne Morrow Paulson, Flannery O'Connor: A Study of the Short Fiction
PAUL W. NISLY     107

Raplh C. Wood, The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists
PAUL SCHLUETER     108

Donald Davie, To Scorch or Freeze: Poems about the Sacred
WILLIAM JENKINS     110

Frank M. Tierney, The Lilac Tree and Other Poems
ELVA MCALLASTER     112

Lewis J. Hutton, The Christian Essence of Spanish Literature: An Historical Study
WILLIAM C. BRYANT     112

David M. Bethea, The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY     114

Poetry
Apologia
DONALD T. WILLIAMS     34

The Chair
IDA FASEL     50

after John Gardner (1933-1982)
ELIZABETH MISCHE JOHN     90

Return
ELVA MCALLASTER     116

On the Boulevard of the Angel of Light
T.H.S. WALLACE     117

Afterword
JANET MC CANN     122