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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 424–425.
Published: 01 June 2001
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Jared Gardner, Ohio State University
The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. By Laura Quinney. Char-
lottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 1999. xvii, 200 pp. $30.00...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2004
... ascertained, that every different person has different ideas
on its signification 31 Although more exacting and compelling theo-
ries of taste would later be proposed and accepted by the early nine-
teenth century, writers such as Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and Coleridge
rejected the tradition outright...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 June 2001
... study
Jared Gardner, Ohio State University
The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. By Laura Quinney. Char-
lottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 1999. xvii, 200 pp. $30.00...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
... toward not only Whittier’s poem but also the transatlantic antislavery print tradition that his poem represents. William Wordsworth’s sonnet “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” was appended to Whittier’s poem when it was first published in the Liberator in 1837, 7 and the attempt of both authors to make...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2001
....
Wordsworth’s sense of loss was philosophical, high-minded, stoic, and related
to political as well as personal hopes—elegiac rather than ironic. Shelley’s
was bitter, personal, and life-denyingly desperate. Wallace Stevens’s inven...
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America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word; Crimes of Art and Terror
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 901–903.
Published: 01 December 2004
... of 9/11 represent ‘‘the greatest work of art that
is possible in the whole cosmos’’ (6) and ends with an imagined conversation
between Heinrich von Kleist and Mohamed Atta. In between, it is structured
like a fugue, developing its thesis with a series of unexpected juxtapositions
(Wordsworth...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 June 2014
... : Published for the proprietors . Newman Lance . 1999 . “ Wordsworth in America and the Nature of Democracy .” New England Quarterly 72 , no. 4 : 517 – 38 . Otter Samuel . 1999 . Melville’s Anatomies . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Pratt Lloyd...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... opposing the Enlightenment’s
radical estrangement of human subjects from their nonhuman envi-
ronments, poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Cole-
ridge attenuate self-world distinctions via a universal pantheism: “the
one life within us and abroad / Which meets all motion...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth cen-
tury.2 Like William Wordsworth in his preface to Lyrical Ballads, Neal
believes that poetry emerges from “the real language of men in a state
of vivid sensation,” through “the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings.” Neal, however...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 367–389.
Published: 01 June 2004
... activation of these tropes as sym-
bols of some deeper, fuller life within modern, urban, industrial cul-
ture, Ginsberg’s poem recalls Blake’s ‘‘London’’ and ‘‘Ah Sun-flower
Wordsworth’s ‘‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Yeats’s ‘‘The Rose
of the World to name only a few. The ‘‘I wandered’’ of ‘‘In back...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
...
both thematically and operationally asserts that one’s choices have
very little to do with outcomes—agency is the ability of the individual
to know rather than the ability to decide. This perspective can be
summed up by William Wordsworth’s position in the poem “Expostu...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 865–870.
Published: 01 December 2007
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to understand the relationship between British romantic poets and mid-
twentieth-century American poets by juxtaposing the poetry of figures such
as William Wordsworth and Frank O’Hara, and Charlotte Smith and Sylvia
Plath.
Hotbeds: Black-White Love in Novels from the United States, Africa...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 637–644.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., and biographical methodologies, he describes the poet’s
intertextual conversations with such figures as William Wordsworth, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, John Wesley, Charles Wadsworth, and John Locke, arguing
that Dickinson robustly valued “sense-based reason and sense-driven
method.” This analysis will interest...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 863–870.
Published: 01 December 2010
... with the sonnet form, and his emulation of William Wordsworth. Simms’s
poetry places British romanticism in the service of developing a national lit-
erature, a strategy that Brennan calls Simms’s “romantic ecology.”
Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading past Melville. By Peter Szendy, trans. Gil Anidjar.
New...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 413–421.
Published: 01 June 2004
...,
and inheritance in Frost’s work. Pack reads Frost as a religious and scholarly
guide and discusses his writing in relation to other poets who influenced him,
such as Wordsworth and Stevens.
416 American Literature
In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern Fiction from Poe to O’Connor.By
Jeffrey J...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 229–238.
Published: 01 March 2010
... needed reconciling. This collection takes a cul-
tural studies approach to reading poetry in order to acknowledge aesthetic
experiences and the material situations from which they emerge. Included
are W. E. B. DuBois’s “Of the Sorrow Songs” and Wordsworth’s “Preface” to
Lyrical Ballads...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and periods. Lectures covered a wide range of topics: metaphysical conceits in John Donne, free verse in William Carlos Williams, and a variety of themes, from carpe diem in Andrew Marvell, to permanence and the ephemeral in William Wordsworth, to Matthew Arnold on “How is a full and enjoyable life...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
... York : D. Appleton and Co . Weed Benjamin . 2014 . Interview by Walker Franklin D. , March 21 , 1930 . In Crisler and McElrath 2014a : 103 – 4 . Wordsworth William . ( 1799 ) 1907 . The Prelude . London : Chatto and Windus . Worster Donald...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in the popular imaginary of capital
punishment and the relationship between state and society that it mediated.
The book ranges from the American reception of William Wordsworth’s pro-
gallows verse and American adaptations of the popular British Newgate novel
to Walt Whitman’s early crime...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the American reception of William Wordsworth’s pro-
gallows verse and American adaptations of the popular British Newgate novel
to Walt Whitman’s early crime reporting, E.D.E.N. Southworth’s sentimen-
tal fictions, and Herman Melville’s unfinished Billy Budd. By identifying the
anti-gallows...
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