Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2005

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2005

Subjects and objects in Lycidas.
June 22, 2005... At least since Coleridge, critics have understood the elegiac mode as a central lyric genre for calling forth poetic subjectivity. Coleridge writes that "elegy is the form of poetry natural to the reflective mind.... It must treat of no subject...

"To be thy praise, / and be my salvation": the double function of praise in The Temple.
June 22, 2005... In her comprehensive study of Protestant poetics, Barbara Lewalski notes the forms and variety of George Herbert's poems of praise: Hymns were by definition joyful praises of God or thanksgivings to him: in Herbert this category...

Shelley's unwriting of Mont Blanc.
June 22, 2005... Today, the critic who would tackle "Mont Blanc" must confront more than one kind of mountain. Along with the eponymous subject of the poem looms an overwhelming mountain of criticism, accumulated over the years like (to mix metaphors only...

Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham: the disciplinary dandy and the art of government.
June 22, 2005... The shifting strata of society following the Napoleonic Wars heralded the emergence of a literary genre which would effectively market social emulation. For the reading public, the silver-fork novels of the 1820s seemed to advance what Pierre...

Free-verse poems in fixed forms: tracing the "silhouette" of Zheng Chouyu's early poems.
June 22, 2005... Foreword The development of Chinese poetry from ancient days to modern times, as modern Chinese poet Zheng Chouyu ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] b. 1933) observes, consists mainly of a change in the sense of rhythm (Zhang, 153). Such an...