[Note 5, Chapter one, in print version]
"Pascal's Sphere". Other Inquisitions. Trans. Sims, R. I. C. (1966), New York: 8. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Trans. Trask, Willard R. (1953) New York: 128-30, provides an essential introduction to the metaphorics of nautical (and many other kinds of tropes. Together with Borges, Curtius's remarks on topoi furnished the original impetus for this study, which has also benefited from T. S. R. Boase, "Shipwrecks in English Romantic Painting," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 22 (1959): 332-46; Lorenz Eitner, "The Open Window and the Storm-tossed Boat: an Essay in the iconography of Romanticism". Art Bulletin. 37 (1959): 281-90; W. H. Auden, The Enchafed Flood: Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit. (1957) New York; Roger B. Stein, Seascape and the American Imagination. (1975) New York.
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