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J.H. Reynolds re-Echoes the Wordsworthian reputation: "Peter Bell," remaking the work and mocking the man.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE EXCURSION (1814) AND HIS COLLECTED Poems (1815), several of Wordsworth's reviewing critics and parodists became acutely wary of and satirically invested in how Wordsworth's poems were "bound each to each." (1)...
Keats and the charm of words: making sense of the Eve of St. Agnes.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... READERS OF KEATS'S POETRY HAVE LONG SPOKEN OF THE ENCHANTING power of his language, though not all have found this quality commendable. Early critics complained of the "charm" or "force" of the rhymes in Keats's first published volume, Poems...
Hidden polemic in Wollstonecraft's letters from Norway: a Bakhtinian reading.(Mary Wollstonecraft)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is probably one of the most interesting and complex literary works of its time in terms of genre/style. It combines a great variety of generic forms...
The wrong marriage: Maturin and the double-logic of masculinity in the unionist Gothic.(Charles Robert Maturin)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Real partisanship, which is the virtue of artworks no less than of men and women, resides in the depths, where social antinomies become the dialects of form: By leading them to language through the synthesis of the work, artists do their part...
Representing rural leisure: John Clare and the politics of popular culture.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... WHILE HAROLD BLOOM FAMOUSLY LABELED THE AGRICULTURAL LABORER and poet John Clare a "Wordsworthian shadow," most critics have challenged the notion of Clare's derivativeness, arguing that his poems offer a new way of representing nature. (1) For...
The liturgical context of the Byron-Nathan Hebrew Melodies.(Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... AFTER A CENTURY AND A HALF OF NEGLECT, BYRON'S HEBREW MELODIES began to attract renewed interest in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In 1972, Thomas L. Ashton published his comprehensive edition of the lyrics, with an introduction...
David Worrall. Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... David Worrall. Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 407. $125.00 cloth/$55.00 paper.
Theatric Revolution delivers what it promises in the opening...
Jeffrey C. Robinson. Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jeffrey C. Robinson. Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism. Houndnfills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 30l. $79-95.
In Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism Jeffrey Robinson brings a most welcome focus on...
Jack Stillinger. Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jack Stillinger. Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 264. $45.00 cloth/$25.00 paper.
In 1971, Jack Stillinger published The Hoodwinking of Madeline and Other Essays on...
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September 22, 2008... Adams, Carol, Douglas Buchanan, and Kelly Gesch. The Bedside, Bathtub, & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein. New York: Continuum, 2007. $60.00 cloth/$14.95 paper.
Alcott, Amos Bronson. Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875. Ed. Karen English....