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Tag: Romantic Poetry

261. (Mary Douglas)

For a while, I tried to think through Mary Douglas’ “cultural theory” in relation to attitudes towards waste in nineteenth-century … More

Anthropology, History of Literature, Mary Douglas, Romantic Poetry, Victorian

260. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Among the defining conventions of Romanticism–the era of poetry that we, these days, might be seeing an end of–is the … More

Romantic Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

218. (William Wordsworth)

Perverse as it is to redefine words against conventional meanings, it is nonetheless possible to loosen from conventional meanings an … More

Christopher Ricks, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, the body, Wordsworth

200. (Wallace Stevens)

Stevens’ poetry is the culmination of romantic idealism, and in comprehending its method and ambitions, the words of philosopher Sebastian Rödl … More

Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Romanticism, Sebastian Rödl, Self-Conscious, Wallace Stevens

174. (Lord Byron)

Like many other great works of Romantic literature, Don Juan finds human caring to be a source of life and makes … More

Byron, comedy, Philosophy and Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Romanticism

122. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

A poem by Shelley, with critical commentary following: When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead– … More

close reading, Poetry, Romantic Poetry

117. (Lord Byron)

“If there is a critique of the Enlightenment to be made, it is not that the philosophes believed in human nature, … More

Byron, Dante, epic, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Virgil

111. (John Keats)

On either side of John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” sit Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence” and Tennyson’s “Vision of … More

John Keats, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Tennyson, waste, Wordsworth

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

84. (William Wordsworth)

If the project of the humanities is the recovery of the past, then a part of that recovery must be … More

Architecture, Christopher Ricks, John Jones, John Soane, Poetry, Poetry and Architecture, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry, Wordsworth

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