Patience is the activity and end of Christina G. Rossetti’s poetry: patience for the time of God, for death, for … More
Category: 19th Century
107. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Though Wilde mocked his pronouncements of sexual deviance, Swinburne quarried queer desire for a reinvention of the metaphysical tradition. Even … More
77. (R.H. Hutton)
One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More
73. (John Keats)
The preference for the Keats of the letters to the Keats of the poems is more than the outcome of … More
59. (William Wordsworth)
Late in his life, in a letter to an inquiring William Rowan Hamilton, Wordsworth stressed the “innumerable minutiae” upon which … More
49. (Walter Savage Landor)
Walter Savage Landor is the forgotten Romantic, both because he is rarely read and because the tradition in which his … More
44. (John Clare)
Many readers of Clare’s poetry will feel immediately and consistently unsettled by one aspect above all others: their seemingly arbitrary … More
40. (Henry James)
Henry James’ critical perception of others didn’t depend on his seeing himself in their words; but he might have been … More
37. (Henry James)
His sentences are moved to excess with a wariness of waste. The inheritance of scrupulous, new-world economizing is carried over, … More
35. (Henry James)
Propriety and property, position and possession: the late James, James of The Golden Bowl, evolved an entire style to brace these … More
