Why read Wordsworth's poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it
might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were …

In Romantic Interactions, Susan J. Wolfson examines how interaction with other authors—
whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someone else writing, or in relation …

How is" Moving Devi" linked to" Can the Subaltern Speak?" you ask. You also ask me to
consider the authority of autobiography. Indeed, the link between the two essays is a life …

In both material and conceptual ways—from survey courses and anthologies to scholarly
projects and narratives of literary history—the year 1865 dominates American literary …

This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A
large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms …

This article questions the status of sympathy in eighteenth century studies. It argues that
sympathy can be seen as an economy of two persistent idealizations: the untouchable—that …

In 1928 the American literary scholar William Lyon Phelps visited the Irish novelist George
Moore, then aged 76, in his London home. In his autobiography, Phelps recalls that Moore's …

Although the 1798 Lyrical Ballads has generated myriad critical studies, which reflect
various historical, cultural, and theoretical perspectives, few readers have contemplated the …

For most critics, the poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Dejection Dialogue--the"
Immortality Ode," the" Letter" to Sara, and" Resolution and Independence"--reveal the poets …

Although Coleridge himself identified only 'The Nightingale'as 'A Conversation Poem', the
assumption that it possessed certain generic or thematic characteristics in common with …