Rodney Edgecombe
MA Rhodes, PhD Cambridge
Office: Arts Block 126
Tel: +27 (0)21 650 2845
Biography
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe took his MA with distinction at Rhodes University, where he won the Royal Society of St George Prize for English and obtained all the credits of his first degree in the first class. He then obtained his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Members' English Prize. He holds a Distinguished Teacher Award from UCT, and has published 12 books and 434 articles on topics ranging from Shakespeare to nineteenth-century opera and ballet. He serves as an advisor to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Research Interests
Herbert
Marvell
Pope
Age of Sensibility
Keats
Dickens
Selected contemporary novelists and poets
Publications
Total: 479 articles, of which 434 have so far been published, and 13 accepted for publication; 12 books, all of which have been published.
Books
"Sweetnesse Readie Penn'd": Imagery, Syntax and Metrics in the Poetry of George Herbert. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1980.
Theme, Embodiment and Structure in the Poetry of George Crabbe. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1983.
Vision and Style in Patrick White: A Study of Five Novels. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark. Columbia: Missouri University Press, 1990.
Wonted Fires: A Reading of Thomas Gray. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1992.
Leigh Hunt and the Poetry of Fancy. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994.
A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Richard Wilbur. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.
Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1996.
A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Howard Nemerov. Salzburg: Poetry Salzburg at the University of Salzburg, 1999.
Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003.
A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
A Reader's Guide to the Narrative and Lyric Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Articles
1. "Some Notes Towards an Aesthetics of Classical Ballet," Arabesque, 6 (1980): 38-39.
2. "The Nature of Comic Ballet: Some Thoughts on Pineapple Poll and Les Patineurs," Arabesque, 8 (1981): 30-31.
3. "The Iconography of the Fairy Variations in The Sleeping Beauty," Arabesque, 11 (1981): 25-29.
4. "An Enquiry into the Syntax of Donne's 'The Good-Morrow' and 'The Sunne Rising'," English Studies in Africa 25 (1982): 29-38.
5. "Musings on Musicality," Arabesque, 15 (1982): 12-15.
6. "A Note on Coercive Rhyme," UCT Studies in English 12 (1982): 58-61.
7. "Opera and Ballet: Some Points of Contact," Arabesque, 13 (1982): 32-33
8. "Petits Maîtres of the Nineteenth Century," Arabesque, 17 (1982): 6-7 & 27. Rpt. as a programme note, Pact Ballet, Don Quixote, 1985.
9. "The Poetry of Edwin Morgan," Dalhousie Review 62 (1982): 668-79.
10. "Solitude and Social Disaffection: Leading Themes in the Romantic Ballet," Arabesque, 16 (1982): 34-37.
11. "Ballet's Classicism," Arabesque, 21 (1983): 42-43.
12. "A Balletic Bestiary," Arabesque, 22 (1983): 13-14.
13. "A Reading of Gray's 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes'," English Studies in Africa 26 (1983): 99-104.
14. "Out-Heroding Herod: Hyper-hyperbole in King Lear and Donne's 'Nocturnal,’" Theoria 63 (1984): 67-72.
15. "Faith, Pride and Selfhood in Patrick White's 'Voss'," English Studies in Africa 27 (1984): 133-45.
16. "No Gift for Words: The Role of Miss Hare in Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot," World Literature Written in English 25 (1985): 52-66.
17. "Comic Lessons," Theoria 67 (1986): 33-44.
18. "Diction and Allusion in Two Early Odes by Gray," Durham University Journal 79 (1986): 31-36.
19. Programme note on Les Patineurs, Pact Ballet, 1987.
20. "Spiritual Bookkeepers," English Studies in Africa 30 (1987): 43-54.
21. "Patrick White's Style--Again," Antipodes 1 (1987): 83-87.
22. "A View of Shakespeare and Ballet," Shakespeare in Southern Africa 1 (1987): 46-51.
23. "A Note on The Old Curiosity Shop and the Eighteenth-Century Night Piece," Theoria 72 (1988): 53-61.
24. "'Incidentals of Remoteness': Robert Wells and the Idea of Pastoral," English Studies in Africa 32 (1989): 13-24.
25. "Homiletic Conversation: William Cowper's Table Talk," University of Dayton Review 20 (1989): 39-49.
26. "Dugmore Boetie's Picaresque Novel," World Literature Written in English 29 (1989): 129-39.
27. "Comic Hypotheses in The Pickwick Papers," Dickens Quarterly 7 (1990): 359-70.
28. "J. M. Coetzee: The Oracular Voice," International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers. Edited by Robert Ross (New York: Garland, 1991): 637-46.
29. "The Nature of Literary Interludes," The Durham University Journal 83 (1991): 253-57.
30. "An Implicit Pun in The Changeling," Notes and Queries 236 (1991): 508.
31. "A Source for an Incident in J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K," Notes on Contemporary Literature 22 (1992): 7.
32. "The Viatic Genres: Some Thoughts on the Typology of Menander the Rhetor," Classical and Modern Literature 12 (1992): 179-90.
33. "A Probable Source for Herbert's 'Whitsunday'," Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 29-30.
34. "Marvell, Cromwell and Spartacus," Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 36-37.
35. "The Weeds and Gardens in Riders in the Chariot," Antipodes 6 (1992): 25-31.
36. "Animal Consciousness from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century," Dalhousie Review 71 (1992): 269-90.
37. "Marvell's 'The Garden' and the Ars Moriendi," Sydney Studies in English 18 (1992-93): 85-92.
38. "Dickens, Hunt and the 'Dramatic Criticism' in Great Expectations," The Dickensian 88 (1992): 82-90.
39. "Odic Elements in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette," The Modern Language Review 87 (1992): 817-26.
40. "Some Forsaken Gardens and What They Tell Us," Colby Quarterly 28 (1992): 129-39.
41. "A Typology of Ecphrases," Classical and Modern Literature 13 (1993): 103-116.
42. "A Source for Lines in Enoch Arden," Notes and Queries 40 (1993): 47.
43. "Leigh Hunt, Harold Skimpole and an Essay from The Seer," Notes and Queries 40 (1993): 47-49.
44. "Leigh Hunt and the Rococo," Keats-Shelley Journal 41 (1992): 164-177.
45. "A Note on Patrick White: The Snake Episode in Riders in the Chariot," Antipodes 7 (1993): 37-38
46. "Locution and Authority in Martin Chuzzlewit," English Studies 74 (1993): 143-53.
47. "An Additional Meaning for 'Divide'," Notes and Queries 40.2 (1993): 151-52.
48. "Legitimate Hyperbole in Northanger Abbey," University of Dayton Review 22 (1993): 147-158.
49. "Regionalisms Ancient and Modern," Classical and Modern Literature 14 (1993): 43-60.
50. "A Variant Reading in Bleak House," Notes and Queries 40.3 (1993): 479.
51. "Barbara Pym's Arraigning Adverbials," The Barbara Pym Newsletter 6 (1992): 1-3.
52. "Spark, Newman and an Aphorism in Memento Mori," Notes on Contemporary Literature 24 (1994): 12.
53. "Melophrasis: Defining a Distinctive Genre of Literature/Music Dialogue," Mosaic 26 (1993): 1-20.
54. "Keats's THE EVE OF ST. AGNES," The Explicator 52.2 (1994): 77-78.
55. "Herbert's 'Paradise' and Isaiah 61.3," Notes and Queries 41.1 (1994): 78-79.
56. "Topographic Disaffection in Dickens's American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit," Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93 (1994): 35-54.
57. "Donne's NOCTURNAL UPON S. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY," The Explicator 52.3 (1994): 142-45.
58. "The Urban Idyll in Martin Chuzzlewit," Review of English Studies 45 (1994): 370-83.
59. "The Interstitial Character of Cardinal Newman's Meditations and Devotions," Prose Studies 16 (1993): 193-212.
60. "The Bow-Bend in 'The Windhover'," Notes and Queries 41 (1994): 357-58.
61. "Two Oblique Allusions in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend," Notes and Queries 41 (1994): 352-53.
62. "The 'Waters' in Bleak House, Chapter 1," Notes and Queries, 41 (1994): 353.
63. "Pastorale à Clef: A Tentative New Reading of Marvell's Mower Poems," Durham University Journal 55 (1994): 209-17.
64. "Patrick White, Leigh Hunt and 'Sweet Music'," Quadrant 39 (1995): 97-99.
65. "On First Looking into Chapman's Musaeus: A Note on a Possible Influence," Keats-Shelley Journal 43 (1994): 27-34.
66. "Gibbon's HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE," The Explicator 53.2 (1995): 79-81.
67. "Violence, Death and Euphemism in Great Expectations," Victorians Institute Journal 22 (1994): 85-98.
68. "Two Sources for Gray's 'Eton College Ode'," Notes and Queries 240 (1995): 67-68.
69. "The Rhetoric of Listless Prose," Colby Quarterly 31 (1995): 154-63.
70. "Gray, Hunt, Keats and the Idea of Poetic Succession," Keats-Shelley Journal 44 (1995): 17-21
71. "Retrospectives in Atwood and White," Quadrant 39 (1995): 85-89.
72. "Catherine Dickens and Christopher Casby: A Note," The Dickensian 91 (1995): 113-117.
73. "Leigh Hunt, Théophile Gautier, Primitivism and the Romantic Ballet," University of Dayton Review 23 (1995): 99-114.
74. "Typology and After: A Taxonomy of Variants," Religion and Literature 27 (1995): 5-26.
75. "Two Possible Sources for Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts'," Durham University Journal 56 (1995): 143.
76. "Two Female Saviours in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Jeanie Deans and Mary Barton," English Studies 77 (1996): 45-58.
77. "The Lost Year in 'The Collar'," Seventeenth-Century News 53 (1995): 12
78. "A Source for the Christmas Sermon in Murder in the Cathedral," Notes on Contemporary Literature 26 (1996): 3-4.
79. "Reading Through the Past: 'Archaeological' Conceits and Procedures in Little Dorrit," The Yearbook of English Studies 26 (1996): 65-72.
80. "Wilbur's CEREMONY," The Explicator 54 (1996): 107-10.
81. "A Source for A. G. Visser's 'Vet'," Stilet 8 (1996): 140.
82. "'Cutting the Mutton' in Twelfth Night," Shakespeare Bulletin 14 (1996): 28.
83. "'The Ring of the Cant': Formulaic Elements in Our Mutual Friend," Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996): 167-84.
84. "The 'Burning Chair' in the B-Text of Doctor Faustus," Notes and Queries 43 (1996): 144-45.
85. "An Antecedent to The Eve of St. Agnes: Bowden, Newman and St. Bartholomew's Eve," Sydney Studies in English 22 (1996-97): 94-101.
86. "Patrick White and Charles Dickens: Two Points of Contact," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31 (1996): 111-14.
87. "The Castiliano vulgo Crux in Twelfth Night," The Shakespeare Newsletter 46 (1996): 49.
88. "The 'Veiled-prophet' in Our Mutual Friend," The Dickensian 92 (1996): 208-09.
89. "The Displacements of Little Dorrit," Journal of English and Germanic Philology 96 (1997): 369-84.
90. "Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT," The Explicator 55 (1997): 200-02.
91. "Eschatological Elements in Donne's 'Anniversarie'," John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 15 (1996): 63-73.
92. "Les Murray and the Tradition of the Emblem Poem" in Counterbalancing Light: Essays on the Poetry of Les Murray. Ed. Carmel Gaffney. Armidale, Australia: Kardoorair Press, 1997; 92-107
93. "Keats's Ode 'To Autumn,' Ovid and Homer," Notes and Queries 44 (1997): 333-34.
94. "Gray, Propertius and the Games Stanza in the ‘Eton College Ode,’" Notes and Queries 44 (1997): 319-20.
95. "A Source for Elgar's 'Enigma,'" The Elgar Society Journal 10 (1997): 124-27.
96. "Wilbur's C MINOR," The Explicator 56 (1997): 38-41.
97. "Wagnerian Elements in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa," The Opera Journal 30 (1997): 21-30.
98. "'Creative Unbundling': Henry IV Parts I and II and Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind,'" Keats-Shelley Review 11 (1997): 133-39.
99. "Ways of Personifying," Style 31 (1997): 1-13.
100. "A Typology of Allusive Practices," Colby Quarterly 35 (1998): 25-38.
101. "The Tragedy of Valentinian and Thalestris' Speech in The Rape of the Lock," Eighteenth-Century Life 21 (1997): 77-78.
102. "Little Dorrit and Canning's 'New Morality,'" Modern Philology 95 (1998): 484-89.
103. "Wordsworth's Sonnet, 'Written upon Westminster Bridge' and Night I of Young's Night Thoughts," Notes and Queries 45 (1998): 191.
104. "Collective Personification in Carlyle's French Revolution," The Victorian Newsletter 93 (1998): 26-27.
105. "Gynomachia: The Partial History of a Topos," with Classical and Modern Literature 18 (1998): 109-23.
106. "Meyerbeer and Ballet Music of the Nineteenth Century: Some Issues of Influence with Reference to Robert le diable," Dance Chronicle 21 (1998): 389-410.
107. "Lucretius and the 'Seven Ages of Man' Speech in As You Like It," The Shakespeare Newsletter 48:2 (1998): 47 & 54.
108. "Anti-Clerical Gothic: The Tale of the Sisters in Nicholas Nickleby," Modern Language Review 94 (1999): 1-10.
109. "Keats's Sonnet 'To Sleep,' Sidney, Drummond, Daniel and Beaumont and Fletcher," English Language Notes 36 (1999): 61-67.
110. "Prophetic Moments in Dickens and Carlyle," The Victorian Newsletter 95 (1999): 18-23.
111. "Habakkuk 2.2, Cowper and Keble," Eighteenth-Century Life 23 (1999): 96-97.
112. "A Note on the Snake Episode in Riders in the Chariot," Antipodes 13 (1999): 37.
113. "Allegorical Topography and the Experience of Space in Isaac Williams's Cathedral." English Studies 80 (1990): 224-38.
114. "A Conjectural Emendation to Lines in Romeo and Juliet," The Shakespeare Newsletter 49 (1999): 13 & 20.
115. "Middle-Class Erasures; The Decreations of Mrs. General and Mr. Podsnap," Studies in the Novel 31 (1999): 279-95.
116. "Rasselas and Hardy's "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations,'" The Thomas Hardy Journal 15 (1999): 109
117. "Personification in the Late Novels of Dickens," The Dickensian 95 (1999): 230-40.
118. "Rusting Warriors in Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and The Tragedy of Valentinian," The Tennyson Research Bulletin 7 (1997): 55-57.
119. "Lucretius, Shelley and the 'Ode to the West Wind,'" The Keats-Shelley Review 13 (1999): 134.
120. "The Probable Authorship of the E Major Variation in Act I of Giselle," Dance Chronicle 22 (1999): 447-49.
121. "Problems Arising from the Grand Pas in Paquita," Dance Chronicle 22 (1999): 449-52.
122. "The Musical Representation of the Grotesque in Nineteenth-Century Opera," Opera Quarterly 16 (2000): 34-51.
123. "The Meaning of Love-in-Idleness in A Midsummer Night's Dream," The Shakespeare Newsletter, 49.3 (1999):75-76.
124. "Romeo and Aeneas: Proverb or Allusion in Romeo and Juliet III.v?," Notes and Queries 47 (2000): 68.
125. "Shakespeare, Catullus, Rumourers and Runaways," Notes and Queries 47 (2000): 68-69.
126. "Ambivalent Judgements in the Proem of Pope's 'To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by his Dialogues on Medals,'" Eighteenth-Century Life 24 (2000): 103-06.
127. "Ransom's CAPTAIN CARPENTER and Hood's FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY," The Explicator 58 (2000): 154-55.
128. "Mrs Sparsit, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Coriolanus," The Victorian Newsletter 97 (2000): 26-28.
129. "An Allusion to Measure for Measure in The Rape of the Lock," Notes and Queries 245 (2000): 196.
130. "Chaucer, Lucretius and the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales," Classical and Modern Literature 20 (2000): 61-65.
131. "Displaced Christian Images in Shelley's 'Ozymandias,'" The Keats-Shelley Review 14 (2000) 95-99.
132. "Shakespeare's A MISUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," The Explicator 58 (2000): 181-84.
133. "From Wordsworth to Crashaw: The Poetical Career of Frederick William Faber," English Studies 81 (2000): 472-83.
134. "Accretions to the Pugni Score for La Esmeralda," Brolga 13 (2000): 32-33.
135. "Crushing and Extending in Cymbeline I.i.25-27," The Shakespeare Newsletter 50 (2000): 51-52.
136. "Patrick White's Voss and The Quest for Corvo: A Note," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 35 (2000): 139-43.
137. "Donne, The Rainbow and The Lady of the Camellias," ANQ 14 (2001): 11-15.
138. "Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 2.1," The Explicator 59 (2000): 5-7.
139. "Temporal Projection in MacLeish's 'You, Andrew Marvell' and Browne's Garden of Cyrus," Notes on Contemporary Literature 31 (2001): 7-8.
140. "The Meaning of 'Rage' in 'The Canonization,'" ANQ 14 (2001): 3-5.
141 "Gray's ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD," The Explicator 59 (2001): 76-78.
142 "Problems Arising from the Great Reckoning in a Little Room--As You Like It III.iii," Classical and Modern Literature 20 (2000): 91-97.
143. "Imogen's Andirons," ANQ, 14 (2001): 16-19.
144. "Marring Curious Tales: Code-cutting Irony in Nicholas Nickleby," Dickens Quarterly 18 (2001): 21-36.
145. "On the Limits of Genre: Some Nineteenth-Century Barcaroles," Nineteenth-Century Music 24.3 (2001): 252-67.
146. "Two Suggested Emendations: 'The weary very means' in AYLI 2.7 and Weeding Silvia's Love in TGV 3.2," The Shakespeare Newsletter 50.4 (2001): 113.
147. "Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein and The Demon," The Opera Journal 33.4 (2000): 3-14.
148. "Wilbur's BAROQUE WALL FOUNTAIN AT THE VILLA SCIARRA,'" The Explicator 59.3 (2001): 153-56.
149. "Southwell's 'Burning Babe' and the 'Naked New-born Babe' in Macbeth 1.7.21-23," Notes and Queries 246.3 (2001): 295-96.
150. "A Possible Take on 'Pretty, and full of view' in Cymbeline 3.4," Shakespeare Bulletin 19.3 (2001): 9.
151. "Change and Fixity in Sense and Sensibility," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 41.3 (2001): 605-22.
152. "Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," The Explicator 59.4 (2001): 176-78.
153. "'The Taller is His Daughter' in As You Like It," The Upstart Crow 20 (2000): 153.
154. "Some Early Vision Poems by Edwin Morgan," Studies in Scottish Literature 32 (2001): 13-25.
155. "The Classical Pas de Deux: A Descendant of the 'Classical' Suite?" Brolga 15 (2001): 27-34.
156. "Shakespeare's KING LEAR and Dickens's THE PICKWICK PAPERS," The Explicator 60.1 (2001): 5-6.
157. "Gray's Elegy and Thomas Brown's 'Pastoral on the Death of Queen Mary,'" Notes and Queries 48.4 (2001): 413.
158. "James Murphy, Shelley and a Stanza in 'Adonais.'" Keats-Shelley Review 15 (2001): 86-87.
159. "Hard Times and the Moral Fable," The Dickens Quarterly 18.4 (2001): 186-202
160. "The 'Farthest Step' in A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1" The Shakespeare Bulletin 20.1 (2002): 26.
161. "Otway, Coleridge and 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'" Notes and Queries 247.1 (2002): 28.
162. "The 'Rope-tricks' in The Taming of the Shrew 1.2," The Shakespeare Yearbook 12 (2001): 447-48.
163. "The 'Humour of Forty Fancies' in The Taming of the Shrew 3.2," The Shakespeare Yearbook 12 (2001): 448-49.
164. "The Mountain Sylph: A Forgotten Exemplar of English Romantic Opera," The Opera Quarterly 18.1 (2002): 26-39.
165. "The Fall of the House of Usher and Little Dorrit," The Victorian Newsletter 101 (2002): 32-34.
166. "Wordsworth's I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD." The Explicator 60.3 (2002) 134-35.
167. "W. S. Gilbert, T. S. Eliot and the 'Objective Correlative.'" Yeats Eliot Review 17.4 (2001): 32.
168. "Titania's Reference to Woodbine in A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i." The Upstart Crow 21 (2001): 82-84.
169. "Lucretius, Milton and 'L'Allegro.'" ANQ 15.4 (2002): 19-20.
170. "Dickens and Addison: A possible Source for Mrs Jellyby." The Dickensian 98.2 (2002): 153-55.
171. "Shakespeare's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR." The Explicator 61.1 (2002): 11-12.
172. "Graeme Murphy's Nutcracker." Brolga 17 (2002): 23-31.
173. "The Heroic Mental Journey: A Note on a Topos." ANQ 16.1 (2003): 24-27.
174. "An Essay on the Instability of Symbols, along with Some Reflections on the Literary Use of Violets." Colby Quarterly 38.4 (2002): 345-66.
175. "Mors Viva: Literary Renderings of Life-to-Death Transition." The Modern Language Review 98 (2003): 11-26.
176. "'Seeing with Final Eyes: Leigh Hunt, Design, Immortality" in Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics. Ed. Nicholas Roe. London: Routledge, 2003; 198-213.
177. "Some Faint Echoes of Cymbeline in Herbert's Temple." The Shakespeare Newsletter 52.4 (2002/2003): 119 and 127
178. "An Allusion to Addison's 'Campaign' in 'The Rape of the Lock.'" Notes and Queries 248 (2003): 201.
179. "Gray's 'Ode on the Spring' and An Essay on Man." Notes and Queries 248 (2003): 205.
180. "Milton, Gray, and West's 'Monody on the Death of Queen Caroline.'" The Review of English Studies 54 (2003): 386-98.
181. "A Source for the Epitaph in Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.'" ANQ 16 (2003): 18-19.
182. "The Connection of Drama and Music in Ballet Scores: A Glossary of Terms in the Form of an Essay." Brolga 18 (2003): 33-49.
183. "Martin Chuzzlewit and 'The Dream of Eugene Aram.'" The Dickensian 99 (2003): 153-55.
185. "Ways of Plotting Plots." The Dalhousie Review 83 (2003): 165-87.
186. "'Singing it out' in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1, Scene 2" ANQ 17 (2004): 12-14.
187. "The Nomenclature of the King's Counsellors in Lyly's Midas." Notes and Queries 248 (2003): 401.
188. "Keats, Hazlitt and Augustan Poetry." ANQ 16 (2003):41-47.
189. "Secular "Religion" in Warton's 'Pleasures of Melancholy.'" English Studies. 85 (2004): 33-46.
190. "An Allusion to Ovid's Heroides in Gray's Eton College Ode." Notes and Queries 249 (2004):48.
191. "An Allusion to Hero and Leander in Herbert's 'Whitsunday'" Notes and Queries 249 (2004.1): 21.
192. "Marlowe, Heine and 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'" ANQ 17 (2004): 39-40.
193. "An Allusion to Goldsmith's Traveller in Little Dorrit." Notes and Queries 249 (2004.2): 159.
194. "The Influence of Auber's Domino noir on La traviata." The Opera Quarterly 20 (2004): 166-70.
195. "A Take on 'Abraham Cupid' in Romeo and Juliet 2.1." The Shakespeare Newsletter 53.259 (2004): 129.
196. "Addison's 'Campaign' and Gray's 'Elegy.'" ANQ 17.3 (2004): 27-28.
197. "Jared French's Iconic Enigmas." Gay and Lesbian Review 11.4 (2004): 15-18.
198. "Some Sources for the Construction of Hurtle Duffield in The Vivisector." Antipodes 17.1 (2003): 107-09.
199. "Keats, Hunt and Soul-Making." Notes and Queries 49.1 (2002): 37-38.
200. "Hood's 'Craniology' and the Head of Christopher Casby in Little Dorrit." The Victorian Newsletter 105 (2004): 28-29.
201. "Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and South Sea Idols." The Victorian Newsletter 105 (2004): 27-28.
202. "Donne, Browne and Eschatological Vision." Seventeenth-Century News 58. 3&4 (2000): 286-91.
203. "Belinda's Coiffure in The Rape of the Lock" with English Language Notes 42.1 (2004): 40-42.
204. "Otway's Windsor Castle and Pope's Windsor-Forest." ANQ 18.1 (2005): 21-22.
205. "Horace's Odes IV.ii and Pope's 'Essay on Criticism.'" ANQ 18.1 (2005): 22- 24.
206. "Dickens, Ingres and Mrs Merdle." English Language Notes 42.2 (2004): 35-40.
207. "Two Echoes of Marvell in Byron's 'Mazeppa.'" Notes and Queries. 52.1 (2004): 45.
208. "Ovid's Golden Age and Keats's Ode 'To Autumn.'" Notes and Queries. 52.1 (2004): 50-51.
209. "Two Verdian Echoes in Heartbreak House." Notes and Queries 52.1 (2004): 99-100.
210. "Hadrian's 'Animula vagula' and Hamlet." ANQ 18.2 (2005): 18-20.
211. "St John Chrysostom's 'Homilies on Romans' and Gray's Elegy." ANQ 18.2 (2005): 28-29.
212. "Musset, Thackeray and Louis Gallet." English Language Notes 42.3 (2005): 28-32.
213. "Les Diamants de la couronne and the 'Dea Abscondita' Motif." Opera Quarterly 21.1 (2005): 93-108.
214. "Dickens and the Comedy of Abbreviation." Dickens Quarterly 22 (2005): 80-91.
215. "Dickens, Hunt and the Waiter in Somebody's Luggage." The Victorian Newsletter. 107 (2005): 25-28.
216. "Pope's 'AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.'" The Explicator 63.4 (2005): 212-13.
217. "'The Salt Fish is an Old Coat' in The Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1" The Upstart Crow 24 (2004): 34-35.
218. "Three Proposed Emendations." The Shakespeare Yearbook 15 (2005): 405-14.
219. "Verdi and Le Sueur: A Note on the Final Chorus in Macbeth." The Opera Quarterly 22.1 (2005): 222-26.
220. "Some Observations on the Love Duets in La traviata." The Opera Quarterly 22.1 (2005): 217-21.
221. "Some Literary Uses of the Manual." Genre 37 3-4 (2004): 373-94.
222. "Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Theognis' Elegies I.15-18." Notes and Queries 52.4 (2005): 463.
223. "Conventions of Prayer in Some Nineteenth-Century Operas." The Musical Times 146 (2005): 45-60.
224. "'Cast Lips of Diana' in As You Like It III.iv." The Shakespeare Newsletter 51.3 (2001): 63.
225. "Petruchio's Priest-Beating and Marino Faliero." The Shakespeare Newsletter 52.1 (2002): 11 & 14
226. "Trans-formal Translation: Plays into Ballets, with Special Reference to Kenneth Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet." The Yearbook of English Studies 36.1 (2006): 65-78.
227. "O'Connor's A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND." The Explicator 64.1 (2005): 56-58.
228. "Dickens and Hood's 'Ode to Rae Wilson, Esq.': Two Points of Contact." The Dickensian 101.3 (2005): 211-12.
229. "A Ragbag of Ballet Music Oddments." Brolga 23 (2005): 12-19.
230. "Feste's 'Leman' in Twelfth Night II.iii." The Shakespeare Newsletter 55.2 (2005): 43.
231. " An Early Instance of 'Variation' meaning 'Solo Dance.'" Notes and Queries 53.1 (2006): 31.
232. " Cesare Pugni, Marius Petipa and Nineteenth-Century Ballet Music." The Musical Times 147 (2006): 39-48.
233. "A Faulty Musical Allusion in a Hood Letter." Notes and Queries 53.3 (2006): 326-27.
234. "An Allusion to Dyer in a Letter by Hood." Notes and Queries 53.3 (2006): 326.
235. "Shakespeare's CYMBELINE and Gibbon's THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE." The Explicator 64.4 (2006): 204-05.
236. "The Nineteenth-Century Ländler: Some Thoughts." The Musical Times 147.4 (2006): 63-76.
237. "Paronomasia in a Letter by Thomas Hood." ANQ 19.4 (2006): 26.
238. "The Formal Design of Brokeback Mountain." Film Criticism 33.3. (2007): 2-14.
239. "An Andersen Letter and Don Giovanni." Germanic Notes and Reviews 38.1 (2007): 39-41.
240. "An Allusion to Heine in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu." Germanic Notes and Reviews 38.1 (2007): 36-38.
241. "Irving's Chronicle of Wolfert's Roost," Gray and Goldsmith." The Explicator 65.3 (2007): 139-42.
242. "A Source for the 'Village-Hampden' Stanza in Gray's 'Elegy.'" ANQ 20.1 (2007): 35-36.
243. "Washington Irving's 'Creole Village' and Goldsmith's 'Traveller.'" ANQ 20.1 (2007): 44-48.
244. "Gray and Johnson: Parallel Sentiments in the 'Eton College Ode' and Rasselas." ANQ 20.2 (2007): 20-21.
245. "A Crux in a Hood Letter." ANQ 20.2 (2007): 34.
246. "'Lightography' in a Letter by Thomas Hood" Notes and Queries 54.2 (2007): 140-41.
247. "Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse." The Explicator 66.1 (2007: 11-15.
248. "A Players' Pun in A Midsummer Night's Dream 3.1." Notes and Queries 253.3 (2007): 277.
249. "Violent Epistemology." Classical and Modern Literature. 26.2 (2006): 139-59.
250. "John Opie's Lectures to the Royal Academy and Little Dorrit." The Victorian Newsletter 112 (2007): 91-100.
251. "Ovid and the 'medicinal gum' in Othello 5.2." Notes and Queries 54.3 (2007): 293-94.
252. "Paradisal Worlds: A Topos and its Variants." English Studies 89 (2008): 67-93.
253. "Narrative Indeterminacy in the Fiction of Annie Proulx." Northwest Review 46.1 (2008): 116-31.
254. "A Possible Hapax Legomenon in a Letter by Thomas Hood. "Notes and Queries 55.1 (2008): 27-28.
255. "Tennyson, Wilde and the Anti-Aubade in Dombey and Son." Notes and Queries 55.1 (2008): 38-39.
256. "Cousin Feenix's Garbled Allusions in Dombey and Son." Notes and Queries 55.1 (2008): 41-43.
257. "Hood, Dickens, Auden and Churchyard Revels."
Notes and Queries 55.1 (2008): 43.
258. "Internationalism, Regionalism and Glazunov's Raymonda." The Musical Times 149 (2008.1): 47-56.
259. "Gastric Wordplay in A King and No King 1.1" Notes and Queries 253.2 (2008): 222-23.
260. "The Heroine of Quiet Service in Dombey and Son." The Dickens Quarterly 25.2 (2008): 73-89.
261. "The Naples Joke in Othello 3.1." Cahiers Élisabéthains 73 (2008): 37.
262. "Narrative Structure in Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes." English Studies 89 (2008): 552-70.
263. "Blair's 'Grave' and Gray's Elegy." ANQ 20.4 (2007): 2-6.
264. "Thomas Parnell's 'Night-Piece on Death' and Edward Young's Night Thoughts." ANQ 20.4 (2007): 6-7.
265. "'Put out the light' in Othello 5.2." ANQ 21.3 (2008): 8-11.
266. "'A Sketch by Boz' and the "Nightmare Aria" in Gilbert's Iolanthe." Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 480-81.
267. "Edward Young, William J. Cory, Virgil and Callimachus." Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 408-09.
268. "William Blake, Edward Young and 'The Sick Rose.'" Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 416-17.
269. "Operatic Sources for Death's Jest-book." Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 441-43.
270. "An Allusion to Endymion in Beddoes's 'Phantom-Wooer.'" Notes and Queries 55.4 (2008): 440-41.
271. "Hazlitt's Essay on Bentham and Bleak House." The Explicator 66.3 (2008): 147-49.
272. "Devils, Noses, Alfred Lammle and Dunstan." The Explicator 66.4 (2008): 240-42.
273. "Samson Agonistes and Collins's "Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline." The Explicator 65.4 (2007): 207-08.
274. "Dickens, Opie and Poussin's Deluge." The Explicator 67.1 (2008): 16-19.
275. "'Love's Philosophy' and a Lyric from The Princess." The Explicator 67.1 (2008): 7-11.
276. "Shelley's 'Alastor,' Collins and Gray." The Keats-Shelley Review 22 (2008): 94-97.
277. "Some Potential Corrections to, and Amplifications of, the Endymion Annotations in the Longman Keats" The Keats-Shelley Review 22 (2008): 82-90.
278. "Keats, Opie, and the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.'" The Keats-Shelley Review 22 (2008): 91-94.
279. "Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole: The Novel as Compendium." Texas Review 29.1&2 (2008): 70-92.
280. "Dickens and W. S. Gilbert: Two Points of Contact." Precious Nonsense: Newsletter of the Midwestern Gilbert and Sullivan Society. 69 (February 2009): 7-8.
281. "Nonprogressive Journeys in Conrad, Dickens and Twain." The Explicator 67.3 (2009): 212-15.
282. "Young, Denham and the 'Quis dabit mihi' Topos." The Explicator 67.3 (2009): 165-67.
283. "K.332 and Swan Lake: Two Points of Contact." The Musical Times 150 (2009): 83-96.
284. "Dickens, Hood and the Comedy of Language Learning." English Studies 90.3 (2009): 274-83.
285. "Othello: Some Proposed Emendations and an Explanation" Cahiers Élisabéthains 74 (Autumn 2008): 37-42.
286. "The Winter Journeys of 'Stopping by Woods' and 'Das Wirtshaus.'" Germanic Notes and Reviews 40.2 (2009): 39-44.
287. "Elizabethan Words, Usages and Ante-datings Unrecorded in the OED, and Culled from Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex." Cahiers Élisabéthains 75 (Spring 2009): 45.
288. "Commutation across the Social Divide." Sydney Studies in English 35 (2009): 31-54.
289. "Two Ante-Datings for Words in the OED." Notes and Queries 56.2 (2009): 270.
290. "John Denham, Robert Burton and the River Exemplum in 'Coopers Hill.'" Notes and Queries 56.2 (2009): 270.
291. "Some Youngian Echoes in Wordsworth." Notes and Queries 256.3 (2009): 365.
292. "An Echo of Young in Gray's 'Bard.'" Notes and Queries 256.3 (2009): 360.
293. "An Echo of Night Thoughts in Gray." Notes and Queries 256.3 (2009): 354.
294. "A Half-Concealed Allusion in an Essay by Macaulay." Notes and Queries 256.3 (2009): 390.
295. "The Significance of the Typology in Lorenzo's Nocturnal (The Merchant of Venice)." The Shakespeare Newsletter 59.1 (2009): 19 & 37
296. "'Stairs of Sand' in The Merchant of Venice 3.2." The Shakespeare Newsletter 59.1 (2009): 19.
297. "Echoes of Gray in Scott's Marmion." ANQ 22.4 (2009): 16-19.
298. "Mann's Zauberberg and Elisabeth Eybers's Röntgenfoto': A Variant on a Topos." Germanic Notes and Reviews 41.1 (2010): 30-37.
299. "Felicia Hemans's 'Modern Greece' and Keats's 'Ode to Psyche.'" The Keats-Shelley Review 23 (2009): 51-52.
300. "Larkin's 'Sad Steps' and the Augustan Night Piece." Twentieth-Century Literature 54.4 (2008): 493-513.
301. "Shelley's 'Arethusa' and Lines from 'Enoch Arden.'" The Tennyson Research Bulletin 9.3 (2009): 283-284.
302. "Wilbur's 'Grace' and Pope's 'Essay on Criticism.'" The Explicator 68.1 (2010): 64-66.
303. "An Allusion to Gray in Byron's Don Juan." The Explicator 68.1 (2010): 13-14.
304. "Tchaikovsky and 'Le Joli': Some Points of Contact with Bizet, Auber, Meyerbeer and Adam." The Musical Times 151 (2010): 31-46.
305. "Displaced Religious Images in Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain.'" Studies in Short Fiction 37.1 (2012): 113-22.
306. "Inverted Christian Images in Endymion Book III." The Explicator 68.2 (2010): 96-100.
307. "Keats, Burton and 'The Eve of St Agnes.'" Notes and Queries 57.2 (2020): 213.
308. "Keats's Use of 'Pip-civilian': An Antedating for the OED Entry for 'Pip' N2.3." Notes and Queries 57.2 (2020): 213-14.
309. "An Allusion to Horace in Roderick Hudson." Notes and Queries 57.2 (2020): 221.
310. "A Possible Hapax Legomenon in Vanity Fair." Notes and Queries 57.2 (2020): 216.
311. "Poetic 'Derivatives' in the Prose of The Portrait of a Lady." ANQ 23.2 (2010):131-37.
312. "Emblems and Ecphrases with Dombey and Son." The Dickens Quarterly 27.2 (2010): 102-18.
313. "Theatrical Dance in Dickens." The Dickens Studies Annual 41 (2010): 1-24.
314. "Byron, Wordsworth and Hemans's 'Modern Greece.'" The Explicator 68.3 (2010): 172-73.
315. "Keats and Henry VI Part 2 3.2." Keats-Shelley Review 24 (2010): 13-14.
316. "The Morphology and Evolution of the Suite Poem." The Texas Review 30.3&4(2009): 69-82.
317. "An 'Obscure' Reference in a Thomas Hood Letter Explained." The Charles Lamb Bulletin 146 (2009): 88.
318. "Four George Eliot Notes." The George Eliot Review 41 (2010): 87-91.
319. "A Possible Hapax Legomenon in the Correspondence of the First Marquis of Halifax." Notes and Queries 255.4 (2010): 508.
320. "Blessed Assurance: Some Secular Uses of the Chorale." The Musical Times 151 (2010): 43-54.
321. "A Maxim from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and 'The Beautiful Changes' by Richard Wilbur." Germanic Notes and Reviews 42.1 (2011): 44-45.
322. "Beddoes, Larkin and the 'Arrow-Shower' in 'The Whitsun Weddings.'" The Explicator 68.4 (2010): 274-75.
323. "A Source for Rigaud in Little Dorrit." The Dickensian 106.3 (2010): 235-29.
324. "Two Dickensian Features of Style." Style 44.4 (2010): 591-93.
325. "An Allusion to Richard II in Keats's 'Imitation of Spenser.'" The Keats-Shelley Review 25.1 (2011): 79-80.
326. "Keats, Hood, Dickens, Crones and Little Boys." The Keats-Shelley Review 25.1 (2011): 81-82.
327. "Goethe, Schiller and 'Empedocles on Etna.'" Notes and Queries 58.1 (2011): 89-93.
328. "Strange Fowl and Neighbouring Ponds in Cymbeline 1.5." The Shakespeare Newsletter 60.2 (2010): 75.
329. "Some Instances of "Ornithomorphism" in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music." The Musical Times 152 (Summer, 2011): 71-94.
330. "Ronald Hynd's Merry Widow: Toward a Definition of the 'Ballet Lyrique.'" Brolga 34 (June 2011): 31-38.
331. "Le Sage, Swift and Dombey and Son." The Explicator 69.1 (2011): 1-3.
332. "Wilbur, Marvell, Henry James and 'The Garden of the World.'" The Explicator 69.1 (2011): 30-32.
333. "The Emblematic Texture of Antonioni's Blow-Up." Film Criticism 36.1 (2011): 68-84.
334. "Thomas Lovell Beddoes's "Alfarabi": A Redating and Reconsideration." Keats-Shelley Review 25.2 (2011): 101-21.
335. "Melomachia: Melodic Challenge and Displacement in Some Nineteenth-Century Music." Journal of Musicological Research 30:4 (2011): 297-308.
336. "Deaths Ceremonious and Casual." The Texas Review 32.1&2 (2011): 77-95.
337. "The Deictic in 'Diese Töne': Thoughts on the Finale's Proem in the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven." The Musical Times 152.4 (2011): 31-44.
338. "Shakespeare, Ballet and Dance," in The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. Ed. Mark Thornton-Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011: 200-19.
339. "John Francis Barnett's Ancient Mariner: From Ballad to Cantata." The Wordsworth Circle 43.1 (2012): 36-43.
340. "Gentleman Saints and Self-Tormentors: Leigh Hunt, Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Asceticism." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.2 (2012): 135-58.
341. "The Tables' Content in Shakespeare's Sonnet 122." The Ben Jonson Journal 19.1 (2012): 127-29.
342. "Apologia Pro Vita Sua: A Confessional Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets 123-25 and 146." The Ben Jonson Journal 19.1 (2012): 129-37.
343. "In Defence of Ropes and Scar: All's Well That Ends Well 4.2.38." The Ben Jonson Journal 19.1 (2012): 137-41.
344. "Popolaresco, Peasants and Primitivism." The Musical Times 153 (2012): 41-58.
345. "Posthumus' Theodicy in Cymbeline V.i." The Shakespeare Newsletter 61.3 (2011/2012): 89.
346. "Günter Grass's Blechtrommel and Samuel Beckett's Play." Germanic Notes and Reviews 43.2 (2012): 56-58.
347. "A Source for H. G. Wells’s Time Machine." Notes and Queries 59.3 (2012): 410-11.
348. "The Pricking in Shakespeare's 20th Sonnet." Cahiers Elisabethains 81 (2012): 37-38.
349. "Canning's 'Sainte Guillotine" and Beddoes's 'Comet.'" The Keats-Shelley Review 27.1 (2013): 26-30.
350. "Thomas Hardy and Victor Hugo: ‘The Oxen.’" The Hardy Review 14.2 (2013): 32-35.
351. "An Ironic Allusion to Tennyson in Vanity Fair" Tennyson Research Bulletin 4 (2010): 380-382.
352. "Edward Young and the Ars Moriendi: Contemplative Method in Night Thoughts." Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1 (2011): 39-64.
353. "The Elegiac Epithalamium: A Romantic Topos." The Musical Times 154.3 (2013): 47-64.
354. "A Debt to The Rape of the Lock in Victor Hugo’s History of a Crime.” Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 270-71.
355. "A Possible Debt to Seneca in Arnold's Sonnet on Shakespeare." Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 257
356. "A Debt to Robert Frost in Patrick White’s Tree of Man." Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 298.
357. "The 'Magenta Moment' in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus." Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 304.
358. "A Dickensian Ante-dating of ‘Shoot’ in the Sense of a ‘Photographic Session.’" Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 266.
359. “Three Augustan allusions in Oliver Twist” Notes and Queries 60.2 (2013): 266-268.
360. "Keats and Ivanhoe." The Keats-Shelley Review. 27.2 (2013): 63-64.
361. "Possible Reminiscences of Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' in Ivanhoe." The Keats-Shelley Review. 27.2 (2013): 64-65.
362. "Tennyson, Herbert and the Epilogue to In Memoriam." The Tennyson Research Bulletin 10.2 (2013): 181-84.
363. "Topoi and Melodic Morphology in the Operas of Donizetti." The Musical Times Spring 155 (2014): 67-80.
364. "Sources for the Characterization of Norman Chandler in A Dance to the Music of Time." Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 148-151.
365. "Hawthorne and Hardy: 'The Darkling Thrush.'" Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 84-86.
366. "'Rappacini's Daughter' and a Lyric by Byron." Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 71-73.
367. "A Connection between Hawthorne's 'Hall of Fantasy' and Herbert's 'Church-floore.'" Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 89.
368. "Essays by D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley: Three Points of Contact." Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 127-29.
369. "A Source for the Phrase 'the Busy Haunts of Men.'" Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 47.
370. "Hardy's 'Darkling Thrush' and Jane Eyre." The Hardy Review 15.2 (2013): 68-70.
371. "Aldous Huxley, H. H. Munro and 'Wordsworth in the Tropics.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 44.3 (2014): 4-6.
372. "The Oneiric Vision of Oliver Twist." The Dickens Quarterly 31.2 (2014): 91-111.
373. "A Note on Two Allusions in Far From the Madding Crowd." The Hardy Review 16.1 (2014): 95-96.
374. "The Present Quality of War" Crux in 2 Henry IV 1.3." The Shakespeare Newsletter 63.3 (2014): 96.
375. "Supplementary Annotations to Jane Eyre." Brontë Studies 39.3 (2014): 187-90.
376. "A Note on ‘And Makes the Senses Rough’ in Henry VI Part I 5.3.71." Ben Jonson Journal 21.2 (2014): 288-91.
377. "The 'Lost' Jests in 2 Henry IV 1.2." Ben Jonson Journal 21.2 (2014): 292-94.
378. "Two Suggested Emendations to Henry VIII 1.1." Ben Jonson Journal 21.2 (2014): 294-96
379. "The Meaning of 'Respective' in The Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4.193." Ben Jonson Journal 21.2 (2014): 296-297.
380. "'Their spheres been fitted' in Shakespeare's Sonnet 119." Ben Jonson Journal 21.2 (2014): 298-302.
381. "Two Hugolian Moments in Novels by Patrick White." Antipodes 28.1 (2014): 227-28.
382. "Edith Dombey and Thomas Cranmer." The Explicator 72.3 (2014): 183-84.
383. “Keats's ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Moschus' ‘Lament for Bion.’" The Keats-Shelley Review 28.1 (2014): 5-6.
384. "A Reversed Meaning for "'Delicate' Unrecorded in the OED.” ANQ 27.3 (2014): 135-36.
385. "A Debt to The Wind in the Willows in Roy Campbell’s ‘Autumn.’" ANQ 27.3 (2014): 144-45.
386. "Supplementary Annotations to Daniel Deronda" The George Eliot Review 45 (2014: 92-95.
387. "Washington Irving, the 'Almighty Dollar' and Little Dorrit." The Dickens Quarterly 31.3 (2014): 229-34.
388. "The Meaning of 'Imply' in The Faerie Queene III.vi.34." Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual. 24 (2014): 325-26.
389. “Tracking Tchaikovsky: The Melokinesis of Ken Russell's The Music Lovers." The Musical Times 155 (2014): 51-70.
390. “‘Beauty is in the eye of the Gazer’: An Aphorism in Jane Eyre.” Notes and Queries 61.4 (2014): 555.
391. "Dickensian and Virgilian Echoes in Adam Bede." Notes and Queries 64.1 (2014): 560-61.
392. "Adam Bede and La Sylphide." Notes and Queries 64.1 (2014): 563-66.
393. "Paraphrastic Allusions in Caleb Williams." Notes and Queries 64.1 (2014): 502-04.
394. "Poetic 'Thickenings' in The Mill on the Floss." Notes and Queries 64.1 (2014): 566-68.
395. “An Allusion to All for Love in the ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’” Keats-Shelley Review 29.1 (2015): 11-12.
396. "A Mediaeval Antedating for 'Busy'='Irritatingly or Oppressively Elaborate.'" Notes and Queries 65.1 (2015): 30-31.
397. "The Score of Giselle." The Musical Times 156 (2015): 27-46.
398. "Günter Grass's Blechtrommel and Patrick White's Solid Mandala." Antipodes 28.2 (2014): 509-12.
399. "Hugo, Goethe and Patrick White: Sources for The Eye of the Storm and The Vivisector." Antipodes 28.2 (2014): 513-17.
400. "A Debt to Ivanhoe in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Conradiana 45.1 (2013): 83.
401. "Enriching Allusions in George Eliot's 'Lifted Veil.'" ANQ 28.1 (2015): 51-53
402. "Sources for the Characterization of Miss Miggs in Barnaby Rudge." The Dickens Quarterly 32.2: 129-38.
403. "Beddoes, Augustus and Vespasian." The Keats-Shelley Review 29.2 (2015): 72-73.
404. "An Hugolian Moment in Nostromo." ANQ 28.2 (2015): 121.
405. "Horace's 'atra cura' and Thackeray's Adventures of Philip." Les Études classiques 81 (2013): 375.
406. "Matthew Arnold's 'Shakespeare' and Odes I.i" with Les Études classiques 81 (2013): 376.
407. "An Allusion to Aeneid II in Lyly's Endymion" with Les Études classiques 81 (2013): 376-77.
408. "The Deserted Village and Book 8 of Ovid's Metamorphoses." Les Études classiques 81 (2013): 373-75.
409. "A Possible Solution to the "Jewel Best Enamelled" Crux in The Comedy of Errors II.i.110-13." The Ben Jonson Journal 22.2 (2015): 266-68.
410. "Two Yeatsian Insects." Yeats-Eliot Review 31 1-2 (2015): 37-39.
411. "Felix Holt: The Radical and the Gusset of Cryptic Futurity." The George Eliot Review 46 (2015):46-54.
412. " An Hugolian Moment in Heart of Darkness" Conradiana 45.3: 67-68.
413. "A Heine Lyric and 'The Lifted Veil.'" Notes and Queries 260.3 (2015): 424-26.
414. "Allusions to Gray in Silas Marner." Notes and Queries 260.3 (2015): 429-30.
415 "An Allusion to Horace in George Eliot's 'Brother Jacob.'" Notes and Queries 260.3 (2015): 429.
416. "Arnold’s ‘Angelic Shelley’ and an Image in The Origin of Species" Notes and Queries 260.3 (2015): 435-36.
417. "Tears." Essays in Criticism 66.1 (2016): 72-95.
418. "Roderick Hudson and La traviata: Who Has Gone Astray?" Verdi Forum 41-42 (2014-15): 44-48.
419. "Herbert's 'Collar', Bacon, Queen Elizabeth and Burton" ANQ 28 3-4 (2015): 140-43.
420. "Figaro's Aria di sortita in Il barbiere di Siviglia." The Musical Times 157 (Summer 2016): 57-68.
421. "The Enacted Parable in The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Dickens Quarterly 33.2 (2016): 109-24.
422. "Instances of Lexical Inventiveness in Chapman's Bussy D’Ambois." Ben Jonson Journal 23.2 (2016): 290-300.
423. "A Prophetic Arraignment in A Tale of Two Cities and 1 Kings 18" ANQ 29.2 (2016): 8-6.
424. "Three Musical Sources for Auden's ‘Lullaby.’" ANQ 29.3 (2016): 177-80.
425. "Stanzas" in The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800. Ed. Jack Lynch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; 405-21.
426. "George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and 'In Time of The Breaking of Nations'" Notes and Queries 64.1 (2017): 124-25.
427. "The Varieties of Musical Pastiche: A Typology." The Musical Times 158.1 (2017):27-44.
428. "Eighteenth-Century Allusions in Henry Esmond." Style 51.1 (2017): 17-24.
429. "Keats and Don Juan: Three Points of Contact." The Keats-Shelley Review 31.1 (2017): 14-18.
430. "'He'll seem to break loose' in A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Explicator 75.2(2017): 140-41.
431. "Vitruvius, 'Caecius', Nero, and Philip Massinger." Les Études classiques 84 (2016): 1-2.
432. "The Object of Absolution in the 'Dies Irae.'" Les Études classiques 84 (2016): 3-6.
433. "The 'Proud of Many' Crux in Shakespeare's Sonnet 67." The Explicator 75.3 (2017): 169-72.
434. "Manzotti's Excelsior, the Tableau Vivant and the Cantata Scenica of the Primo Ottocento: An Essay on Form and Influence." The Musical Times. Spring, 2019.
435. "Music and the word: some thoughts on the ingested ‘melodrama’ of Brahms’s First symphony." The Musical Times (Winter 2020): 77-100
Poems and Translations
"Umbrellas in the English Department, Rhodes University, 1970," Imago 4 (1982): 5.
"Propempticon for Prisoners' Thoughts," Imago 6 (1983): 10.
"'Three Beasts.' A Translation of N. P. Van Wyk Louw's 'Drie Diere,'" Arabesque 16 (1982): 38.
Reviews
"John Bunyan: The Holy War," Prose Studies 5 (1982): 254-6.
"Studies in Tennyson," UCT Studies in English 12 (1982): 65-67.
"Guy Butler's Autobiography," Contrast 56 (1983): 72-80.
"English Studies in Transition," Social Dynamics 10 (1984): 97-99.
"Eleanor M Gates (Ed.) Leigh Hunt: A Life in Letters," Notes and Queries 46 (1999): 551-52.
"The Companion to 'Little Dorrit'. By Trey Philpots (The Dickens Companions) Robertsbridge: Helm. 2003 XV+560 pp. £55; $97. ISBN 1-873403-85-2." Modern Language Review 100.4 (2005): 1096-97.