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65 When he tries to provide a key to our understanding of the decadent movement, Nassaar rightly moves back in time. He sees Wilde in the Keats-Rossetti-Pater tradition, with Tennyson thrown in as well. In his analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sybil Vane represents "the art movement of Tennyson"; Basil Hallward's steady deterioration as an artist "is meant to symbolize the decline of Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism in general, and Ruskin's 'Moral Aesthetic'"; and Lord Henry Wotton's "terrible end is probably a jab at Pater, who was too timid to practice in any way what Wilde believed him to have preached." Poor Wilde. He always has deserved better than his critics have given him. Arizona State University Nicholas A. Salerno 2. Ralph Hodgson: A Beginning Wesley D. Sweetser, Ralph Hodgson: A Bibliography (Oswego, NY: Privately Printed for the Author, 1974TT Not for sale. Wesley D. Sweetser's bibliography of Ralph Hodgson - a poet described by T. S. Eliot as one around whose head finches and fairies skim in jubilant rapture - fills a small but important lacuna in ELT scholarship. Clearly, this bibliography is a labor of love, a bibliography which now requires the hand and eye of a trained bibliographer to turn it into a thoroughly useful reference book. The "Introduction" leaves something to be desired, in that Sweetser carries his own discussion of Hodgson only so far as where a memoir by Robert F. Richards picks it up. The result is that Hodgson comes off as a rather fey, entertaining character and good personal friend but one whose place in literary history is almost non-existent. Which, of course, it isn't. A brief analysis of Hodgson's literary output would probably add to Hodgson's readers, let alone to users of this volume. The bibliography itself needs some refining. In one case Sweetser collates a trade edition instead of a limited edition "simply as a matter of courtesy." For anthologized selections he relies on "the accuracy" of Granger's Index. Although Sweetser includes a section on "Book Reviews," his section on general "Works About Hodgson" includes a number of book reviews (indeed, some reviews get listed twice under different titles when they are merely reprints, i.e., the Aiken items), and other supposed works about Hodgson are actually reprints of poems. The section on Hodgson's "Contributions to Periodicals" is only "relatively . . . complete" and the "Contributions to Books" an admitted "sampling." And calling the lattear section "Contributions to Books" is somewhat misleading in that it suggests an active participation on Hodgson's part, whereas many of these contributions are merely reprintings in poetry anthologies. 66 Still, all cavils aside - we have had no Ralph Hodgson bibliography ; now we do. It will be a simple task for another Hodgson admirer to legitimize Sweetser's work. Arizona State University Nicholas A. Salerno 3· Homage to Isaac Rosenberg: A Review Article Isaac Rosenberg: A Poet and Painter of the First Uorld War, Exhibition organised by the National Book League, 19 August 5 September 1975. Illustrated Catalogue (Lond, 1975). £2.00. Joseph Cohen. Journey to the Trenches (Lond: Robson Books, 1975). f4.95. Jean Liddiard. Isaac Rosenberg: The HaIf-Used Life (Lond: Gollancz, 1975). £6.00. Jean Wilson. Isaac Rosenberg, Poet and Painter (Lond: Cecil Woolf, 1975)· £4.75. Suddenly, nearly sixty years after his death, Isaac Rosenberg seems to have arrived. His life, which has for long appeared to be as obscure as his poetry, has been laid bare by three different biographies published almost simultaneously. His paintings, together with photographs and other material of interest, have been exhibited in London for almost three weeks in a splendid display arranged by the National Book League. His Collected Works, out of print for many years and quite unobtainable, is to be republished in spring 1976, completely revised and edited by Ian Parsons; at last a chronological arrangement of the poems will enable us to trace Rosenberg's poetic development and the reproduction of many of his paintings and drawings will help us to see his comparative merits as painter and poet. Nov/ there seems no doubt that, as Professor Cohen suggests, "Insofar as Rosenberg's reputation...

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