Studies in Romanticism articles from December 2001

Studies in Romanticism archives from December 2001

In Memoriam.(David Erdman)(Robert Gleckner)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... IN MEMORIAM We will sorely miss David V. Erdman and Robert F. Gleckner, master scholars and interpreters: This mournful day Must be a blank in Nature; follow with me, and tomorrow again Resume your labours, & this day...

Keats's nausea.(John Keats)
December 22, 2001... Perhaps I eat to persuade myself I am somebody. (1) --John Keats Now no comfort avails any more; longing transcends a world after death, even the gods; existence is negated along with its glittering reflection in the gods, or in any...

Platonic eros and deconstructive love.
December 22, 2001... In your name you are my destiny, for me you are destiny. Everything began, you remember, when I pronounced it, you had your hands on the wheel, and I know that I am writing this, my destiny, fate, my chance, when on the envelope I risk, which...

"We are two": the address to Dorothy in "Tintern Abbey.".(Dorothy Wordsworth)(William Wordsworth)
December 22, 2001... FEW READERS DOUBT THE PROMINENCE OF "TINTERN ABBEY" IN THE Wordsworth canon; yet despite an almost uninterrupted flow of critical interest since 1798, this poem continues to challenge readers to the extent that Alan Grob has recently described...

Coleridge and the pleasures of verse.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
December 22, 2001... IN THE CONTEXT OF A RECENT REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN ROMANTIC LITERARY form, (1) this essay hopes to demonstrate that Samuel Taylor Coleridge is among the most purposeful practitioners of verse as verse in his era. The essay suggests that, along...

From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's reputation and the problem of literary debt.(William Wordsworth)
December 22, 2001... All reputation is hazardous... hard to win, harder to keep. --William Hazlitt, Table Talk Reputation is valuable; and whatever is of value ought to enter into our estimates. A just and reasonable man will be anxious so to conduct...

Teddi Chichester Bonca. Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority.
December 22, 2001... Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pp. xiv+311. $21.95 (paper)/$65.50 (cloth). One of the commonplaces of biographically informed criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley is that he spent his adult life trying to recreate the idyll...

David Jasper. The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism: Preserving the Sacred Truths.
December 22, 2001... New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 158. Published as a volume in "Perspectives in Romanticism," a series that seeks to place romanticism in a "comparative and interdisciplinary perspective," David Jasper's study examines the...

Eleanor M. Gates. Leigh Hunt: a Life in Letters.
December 22, 2001... Essex, CT.: Falls River Publications, 1998. Pp. xxxi+693. $44.95. Whether or not Leigh Hunt knew everyone that was anyone in nineteenth-century letters (as it is sometimes said), he was undeniably at the center of one of the most important...

Gary Dyer. British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832.
December 22, 2001... New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 263+xii. $59.95. It has not been very many years since "satire" and "romanticism" were held to be antithetical terms. Satire, with its trademark emphasis on the exposure of human folly and its...

Kim Wheatley. Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics.
December 22, 2001... Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Pp. 278. $34.95. Shelley and His Readers offers a study of Shelley's cultural and political reception, a defense of his idealism, and some reflections on questions of critical method, especially...

Eleanor Ty. Empowering the Feminine: the Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812.
December 22, 2001... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. 236. $45.00. The last two decades have seen a revival of interest in nineteenth-century studies in women writers who had been dismissed and forgotten during prior critical and theoretical...