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Tag: Shelley

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

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

anthro, Empson, James Smith, Poetry, Queer, Shelley, Swinburne, T.S. El, Victorian Poetry

93. (Elizabeth Bishop)

She shares with Eugenio Montale a novel sense of what epiphany a poem can or should seek or record. She only … More

American poetry, Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, epiphany, Marianne Moore, Montale, Poetry, Robert Lowell, Shelley, Yeats

52. (Matthew Arnold)

Born this day, December 24, in 1822, Matthew Arnold would have today celebrated his one hundredth and ninety second birthday, … More

Ambiguity, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Shelley, T.S. Eliot, Vagueness, Victorian Poetry

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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