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Tag: waste

127. (George Eliot)

This post will open with George Eliot and then drift, possibly to return. For a starting point, consider one of … More

Dickens, George Eliot, nineteenth-century literature, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, waste, Weber, Wordsworth

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

91. (Andrew Marvell)

Rather than delete the earlier posts, which now seem wrong in different ways, I’ll keep them and build on them: … More

Andrew Marvell, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, wit

89. (Andrew Marvell)

When T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Andrew Marvell, offered his incomparably confusing characterization of “wit,” what was he onto? … More

Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christopher Ricks, genre, Michael Wood, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, William Empson, wit

19. (John Milton)

The wryly and slyly passionate William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral, at the end of the chapter on Milton and … More

Empson, Marvell, meter, Milton, nostalgia, pastoral, Renaissance, waste, Wordsworth
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