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George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman by Kathryn Gilbert Dapp Review by: Elizabeth W. Manwaring Modern Language Notes, Vol. 56, No. 5 (May, 1941), pp. 398-399 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2911233 . Accessed: 25/06/2014 01:05 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Modern Language Notes. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.78.91 on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:05:14 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman by Kathryn Gilbert DappReview by: Elizabeth W. ManwaringModern Language Notes, Vol. 56, No. 5 (May, 1941), pp. 398-399Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2911233 .

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398 MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, MAY, 1941

I note that the quotations for God occupy two and one-half of the double columns; also that Lanier is a Christian (see Christ), but not clearly a Trinitarian (see Spirit and Ghost). There are many references to Dream, Dreamed, Dreamer, Dream-field, Dreaming, Dreams, Dream-taught, Dream-worker; all told, about three columns of these words and their quotations. There are a good many hyphened compounds; Grain-army seems to have a hyphen from the editors. In the " cross-references," as " See also Governor- spirits," or " Merchant-spirits," the compound words should be like the head-word, in black-faced types, which we need not give in this review. Lanier in his verse does not refer to Poe, Whitman, or Lee, nor to Wordsworth. There is a repeated line (Clover 81, 103): " Beethoven, Chaucer, Schubert, Shakespeare, Bach." These refer- ences to Shakespeare should have been combined with five others to Shackspeare. Naturally there are many references to Marsh and things connected with marshes. There are more to Hills than to Mind, which Lanier more often spells without a capital letter, and more to Hills than to Nature, which he deifies more often than he does Mind.

LANE COOPER Cornell University

George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman. By IKATHRYN GILBERT DAPP. Philadelphia, 1939. Pp. viii + 184. (University of Pennsylvania dissertation.)

Except for connoisseurship in pictures and improvement of grounds, George Keate appears to have exhibited every form of tasteful activity and literary fashion which a fairly affluent Eng- lish gentleman living between 1730 and 1797 could be supposed to. In fact, so perfect a specimen is he that if he had been created by a novelist, he would seem improbable. For Mliss Dapp's substantial bibliography of his works, all but a very few of which she has handled, for the letters and fragments of letters (the only one of Keate's which survives as a whole is one to Garrick), and for the information about her subject, Miss Dapp must indeed, as she says, have sought far and wide. A special reason for gratitude to her is her inclusion of the rest of the' twenty-seven letters of Voltaire to Keate, now in the British Museum, of which only four have previously been printed. But the chief value of her study is an incredibly complete portrait of the Man of Taste.

Keate knew Edward Young and Voltaire, to both of whom he dedicated poems; Garrick and the elder Colman, who would not listen to his play; Angelica Kauffman, who painted for him; Sir Robert Strange; and Robert Adam (whose ceiling fell down on him

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REVIEWS 399

and caused a law-suit). He wrote letters to the Chevalier d'Eon and a poem in defence of Captain Bligh. He admired Shakespeare and had an inkstand from the mulberry tree. He met Dr. Johnson in the company of Boswell and Miss More. He read a Pickwickian paper on some doubtfully Roman pottery before the Society of Antiquaries. He exhibited at the Society of Artists, and Sir Joshua presented him with a Discourse. By his will, Nollekens (whom he knew) made his funerary bust.

Miss Dapp's bibliography of his work is, by implication, a review of the literary fashions of the period covered. Keate's Grand Tour produces a " respectful " view of ancient and modern Rome, a study of Geneva and Liberty, and a loco-descriptive poem, Miltonic, Thomsonian and Ossianic all in one, on the Alps; and though mnoun- tains were just then the rage in Paris, it is clear, as Professor Havens remarked in The Influence of Milton, that Keate really knew and loved these mountains. Next come an Ovidian amatory epistle, a graveyard piece on Netley Abbey (in Gray's elegiacs), praise of Shakespeare to Voltaire (in time for the Jubilee), and the Monunent in Arcadia (Poussin and pastoral, ut pictura poesis). The Sketches from Nature are purified and diluted Sterne. An Accountt of the Pelew Islands tells of Prince Lee Boo (as Professor Fairchild has recounted in The lNoble Savage), inspires Mrs. West, Joseph Cottle, and even Coleridge to shed poetic tears, and runs to fifteen editions.

ELIZABETH W. MANWARING Wellesley College

Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Fanny Cornforth. Edited by PAULL FRANKLIN BAUM. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. Pp. xiv + 142. $2.25.

This correspondence adds another touch of irony to Rossetti's story; at last one finds him in actual communication with his mistress, the ' evil genius,' the wholly sensual influence in his life, that wrought such havoc according to his biographers. With trembling fingers one parts the veil: Dear Fan

Dunn has told me something about which you must not be angry. It seems that poor fawn that Graham sent was in such a state as not to be worth the expense of sending on here, but that you, like a funny old chumpwump, would have it sent. . . . So there is the whole story, you good old thing, and you must not be angry with Dunn or with me.

This sets the tone, and nowhere is there anything more pas- sionate; the manner is exactly that of his letters to his mother, whom he called 'Good Antique.' Fanny is 'Good Elephant.' The

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