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Tag: Attention

108. (William Wordsworth)

  Wordsworth is one of the revolutionaries of English literary history, and not just because, as critics since Coleridge have … More

Attention, Metaphysical Poetry, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, waste, Wordsworth

42. (John Berryman)

For whom, among those who turn and return to literature, is the memory of adolescent boredom not fresh? Probably it … More

Attention, Auden, Criticism, John Berryman, Poetry

20. (Marcel Proust)

Still reading, slowly, the second volume of Recherche. I’ve leapt from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright to the new James Grieve translation without wincing. … More

Attention, Fiction, Proust, Realism, Ruskin

18. (Laurence Sterne)

Judge the bar to be set where you will, what follows is going to be worse than what I usually … More

Attention, Charles Dickens, Empson, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Robert Browning

15. (Robert Browning)

Tennyson, haunted by the memory of Arthur Hallam, must look down from atop that long staircase to the stars (the … More

Alexander Bain, Attention, J.S. Mill, Poetry, Robert Browning, Victorian

13. (Robert Browning)

In “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,” it is difficult to believe that the Bishop’s children are listening attentively to all … More

Attention, Poetry, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Victorian

12. (Robert Browning)

Something happens to attention in works of literature during the early stages of the Victorian era—I had wanted to say … More

Attention, Poetry, Randall Collins, Robert Browning, Sociology, Victorian

8. (Robert Browning)

Bagehot, a man in the know, confides to his readership: “One of his greatest admirers once owned to us that … More

Attention, Beckett, Dante, Davie, Poetry, Robert Browning, Ruskin, Shelley, Syntax, Victorian
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