For a while, I tried to think through Mary Douglas’ “cultural theory” in relation to attitudes towards waste in nineteenth-century … More
Tag: Romantic Poetry
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
218. (William Wordsworth)
Perverse as it is to redefine words against conventional meanings, it is nonetheless possible to loosen from conventional meanings an … More
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
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
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
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
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
108. (William Wordsworth)
Wordsworth is one of the revolutionaries of English literary history, and not just because, as critics since Coleridge have … More
84. (William Wordsworth)
If the project of the humanities is the recovery of the past, then a part of that recovery must be … More
