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An Analysis of the English Poems of St. Thomas More.Mary Edith Willow

The book has many felicities. It restores 'The Lie' to the Ralegh canon—pace Lefranc—even as it contains one of the most perceptive readings of Ocean to Cynthia (Ch. m) and an exclusive account of ' the presence of Ralegh' in The History of the World (Ch. v). Even an occasional phrase, moreover, is likely to propel us from Ralegh to the Renaissance at large. That Ralegh's self-fashioning leads us 'toward symbolic characterization and transcendent meaning' (p. 59) is an adequate summary of the ambitions of Elizabeth I, or indeed of the aspirations of the Jacobean masque; that 'Ralegh's beliefs appear to vary with hisrhetorical purpose' (p. 102) is a claim no less applicable to the prose of Sir Thomas Browne and Milton among others, while to hear the 'resonance of the universal in the words of the individual' (p. 118) is arguably the tendency apparent in every substantial spirit of Ralegh's age. In other words, Greenblatt generously annotates the claim often ventured —e.g., by F. P. Wilson in his elegant lectures Elizabethan and Jacobean (1945)—that Ralegh displays those 'contrarieties' which argue not inconsistency but a representative ability to merge diverse experiences into a unified vision. But that Greenblatt performs so brilliantly must be attributed largely to his lucid style which, in the end, covers a multitude of virtues. U N I V E R S I T Y OF YORK C. A. Patrides