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Confusion and misattribution concerning the two earliest English translations of Wilde's 'Salome'
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Important re-discovery of a passage by Robert Ross on 'Salome'
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Review of 'Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Mr W.H.' with a foreword by Peter Ackroyd
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Some Renaissance elements in Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano"
(Erasmus Press, Kentucky, 1983-04)Malcolm Lowry's imagination is vitally in touch with that of many other authors and artists, notably with English Renaissance writers. The most important of these is obviously Marlowe, whose Faustus has a marked and explicit ... -
W.H. Auden's 'The Shield of Achilles' and its sources
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1974-11)W.H. Auden's 'The Shield of Achilles', the title poem of the volume published by Faber and Faber in 1955, is coming to be regarded, and rightly so, as one of his finest and most significant creations after World War II. ... -
Some Possible Sources for Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium': A Reconsideration
(The Yeats Eliot Review, University of Arkansas, 1987)This article aims to refute Archibald A. Hill, who argued that neither Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' nor Andersen's story 'The Nightingale' need be accepted as source material for Yeats's poem. The author argues that both ... -
Background and Significance of D. H. Lawrence's "The Ladybird"
(The D. H. Lawrence Review, 1982)"The Ladybird" has not fared particularly well at the hands of its critics. Critics have failed to see that it is not to be understood as an example of mimesis or realism but creates its own symbolic, mythical world. -
Re-discovery of a Passage by Robert Ross on "Salome"
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2003)A further note to the author's previous article "A History of Confusion" regarding Robert Ross's translation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome", wherein Ross confirms that the translation is indeed new and owes nothing to the earlier ... -
W.H. Auden's "Another Time"
(Western Washington State College, 1972)The title-poem of Auden's volume 'Another Time' has received little critical attention. Here the author discusses Auden's understanding of time, and our place in it. -
A History of Confusion: The Two Earliest English Translations of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome”
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2002)A translation of Salome from the original French into English by Lord Alfred Douglas has been persistently confused with a later, drastically overhauled version - virtually a new translation - first published in 1906 and ... -
Dogs and Foxes in D.H. Lawrence and W.H. Auden
(Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1984)In writing 'The Fox' and 'Kangaroo', Lawrence was much preoccupied with the mentality of what one may roughly call "meddlers" and "authorities" on the one hand, and the fate of their victims on the other; the first group, ... -
Which is the Most Authoritative Early Translation of Wilde's "Salomé"?
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis group, 2004)Oscar Wilde originally wrote and published his now famous and highly regarded play "Salomé" in French (Paris and London, 1893). A very inaccurate translation of it into English, by Lord Alfred Douglas, led to much wrangling ... -
Yeats and Auden: Some Verbal Parallels
(Oxford University Press, 1973)As has been previously observed, Auden verbally resembles Yeats on more than one occasion, and Yeats sometimes resembles Auden. But, as far as Daalder is aware, several genuine or possible parallels are yet to be discussed. ... -
Echoes of Auden. "Cities and Strangers" by Paterson. [review]
(Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1977)Review of Alistair Paterson's book "Cities & Strangers" (Dunedin: Caveman Press, 1976). -
Charles Brasch and the Betrayal of Romanticism
(Outrigger Publishers Ltd., 1978)An extension of the author's 1972 essay, '"Disputed Ground" in the Poetry of Charles Brasch'. In this paper, Professor Daalder explains the spiritualizing influence of Wordsworth and Shelley on Brasch's early poems.