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Tag: Romanticism

256. (Samuel Beckett)

Beckett said Samuel Johnson was always with him; yet reading the trilogy, Molloy etc, one feels also (Kenner remarked on … More

Proust, Romanticism, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth

246. (William Wordsworth)

“His Muse (it cannot be denied, and without this we cannot explain its character at all) is a levelling one. … More

Poetry, Romanticism, William Wordsworth

245. (Stendhal)

Stendhal’s romanticism has been described by Erich Auerbach in terms of “atmosphere,” a unifying relation of place, person, and time … More

Romanticism, Stendhal, the novel

221. (John Keats)

This post is the first in a series of evolving sketches on “decorum” in poetry; it leads into the next … More

decorum, Donald Davie, John Keats, Poetry, Romanticism

211. (Percy Shelley)

Shelley’s poetry has challenged some of the finest critics, and even Hazlitt, who stands opposed to Shelley’s most notable detractors, … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Poetry, Romanticism, Shelley, tact, the body

207. (Amy Clampitt)

Amy Clampitt’s “Nothing Stays Put” opens with an allusion to Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” and the … More

American poetry, Amy Clampitt, Elizabeth Bishop, Hopkins, John Clare, Poetry, Romanticism, Self-Conscious, Wallace Stevens, Whitman, Wordsworth

202. (William Wordsworth)

Unlike Samson, whose strength returns with his hair and whose blindness, though indignity and infirmity, is not absolute impotence, Wordsworth’s … More

Milton, Poetry, Romanticism, William 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

198. (Robert Browning)

For Keats, the question of whether it is enough to receive this world on its own terms. For Stevens, as … More

History of Science, Kant, Objectivity, Robert Browning, Romanticism, Wallace Stevens

197. (John Keats)

Some have felt with exasperation what Keats may have worried over himself: that his poetry can be attended by the … More

John Keats, Romanticism, Wallace Stevens

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