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