Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature · 1992 · 41 citations · 0 references
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Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic.--W. Jackson Bate.Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like Ren Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers.--Comparative Literature.