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6. E.g., in Lily Campbell, Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes: Slaves of Passion,
Cambridge, 1930; also Oscar J. Campbell, "What is the Matter with
Hamlet?" Yale Review, XXXII (1942), pp. 309-22. Stoll holds to
a different variety of historicism which insists on reconstructing stage
conventions but attacks the reconstruction of psychological theories.
See "Jacques and the Antiquaries," From Shakespeare to Joyce, pp.
I38-45-
7. "Imagery and Logic: Ramus and Metaphysical Poetics," Journal of the
History of Ideas, III (1942), pp. 365-400.
8. F. A. Pottle, The Idiom of Poetry, Ithaca, N. Y., 1941 (Second ed.,
1946).
9. Cf. the exposition by Hoyt Trowbridge, "Aristotle and the New Criti-
cism," Sewanee Review, LII (1944), pp. 537-55.
10. The example comes from Harold Cherniss, "The Biographical Fashion
in Literary Criticism," University of California Publications in Classi-
cal Philology, XII (1943). PP- 279-93.
11. R. G. Collingwood, Principles of Art, Oxford, 1 93 8, p. 4. As Allen
Tate observes, "The scholar who tells us that he understands Dryden
but makes nothing of Hopkins or Yeats is telling us that he does not
understand Dryden," in "Miss Emily and the Bibliographer" {Reason
in Madness, New York, 1941, p. 115).
12. Norman Foerster, The American Scholar, Chapel Hill, 1929, p. 36.
13. A few recent discussions of the relations of literary scholarship and
criticism are listed in the bibliography to this chapter.
chapter v
National, Comparative, and General Literature
1. Cf. Fernand Baldensperger, "Litterature comparee: Le Mot et la
chose," Revue de litterature comparee, I (1921), pp. 1-29.
2. F. C. Green, Minuet, London, 1935.
3. Hans Naumann, Primitive Gemeinschaftskultur, Jena, 1 92 1.
4. Quite irrelevant to the study of Shakespeare are the world-wide paral-
lels to the Hamlet story collected in Schick's Corpus Hamleticum, 5
vols., Berlin, 1912-38.
5. This is true of the work of Alexander Veselovsky, dating back to the
1870's; the later work of J. Polivka on Russian fairy-tales ; and the
writings of Gerhard Gesemann on the Yugoslav Epic (e.g., Studien
zur siidslavischen Volksepik, Reichenberg, 1926). See the instructive
account by Margaret Schlauch, "Folklore in the Soviet Union,"
Science and Society, VIII (1944), pp. 205-22.