Recently added articles from Wordsworth Circle:
The 2009 Wordsworth Summer Conference.(Conference news)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Monday, July 27 to Thursday, August 6 at Forest Side, Grasmere, Cumbria Keynote Lecturers: Part 1 (27 July to 1 August) Frances Ferguson, Paul H Fry, Stephen Gill, Claire Lament, Nicholas Roe, Fiona Stafford Part 2 (1 to 6 August) Gillian Beer, Frederick Burwick, ...
The "Ode to Duty" and the idea of human solidarity.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... To suggest the origins of Wordsworth's later idea of community, I will trace a progression of his thinking about the freedom of the imagination and the opposition between imagination and duty: a dominant concern of his poetry in the decade 1798-1807. I concentrate on the years 1802-04 ...
Harriet Martineau's anti-romanticism.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... On May 23, 1850, exactly a month after the death of William Wordsworth, there was a violent spring thunderstorm over Thirlmere and Helvellyn. Watching the spectacle from Ambleside, a few miles away, Harriet Martineau wrote to her friend, Fanny Wedgwood, describing the storm, and ...
Atlantic exile and the stateless citizen in Irish Romanticism.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A recurring difficulty, and opportunity, in Irish studies turns on the fluid conceptualization of Ireland's geographical position across the period of colonial domination. In global terms, Ireland was variously positioned "on the edge of Europe," in Joep Leerssen's phrase, or on the cusp ...
Byron's Dying Gladiator in context.(George Byron)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Stephen Larrabee's English Bards and Grecian Marbles (1943) marvellously unravelled and traced the genealogy of Byron's tale of the love-sick French maiden in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 162 (hereafter CHP, and quoted by canto number followed by stanza number), who fell in ...
Coleridge and the radical roots of critical philosophy.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In Biographia Literaria (1817), Coleridge wrote that his initial encounter with Kant's philosophy "took possession of me as with a giant's hand" (Biographia 1: 153), as if it were a sudden moment of mystical conversion. The metaphor of being possessed implies that Kant's philosophy became ...
Helen Maria Williams: Wordsworth's revolutionary anima.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Living in France appears to me somewhat like living in a region of romance ... and while I contemplate these things I sometimes think that the age of chivalry, instead of being past for ever, is just returned --Helen Maria Williams Moi je m'en vais dans l'Elysee, Avec ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008 ... From the Editor: The Wordsworth Circle, founded in 1970, is an international quarterly learned journal publishing peer-reviewed essays, conference papers, and special issues on the same vast field as the books we review. The range includes all expressions and ideas, lives, works, and ...
Sunday morning.(Poem)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Swigging your coffee, you flick though an old notebook: half-lines collide with earnest notes to self and a Venetian gag ('Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt') ... Outside, Princes Street is sprinkled with scarved Christmas ...
Geoffrey Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Geoffrey Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe. (Fordham University Press, 2007) x + 195 $24.95 <Pre> Reflection shows us that our image of happiness is thoroughly colored by the time to which the course of our existence has ...
Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth's Poetry: 1787-1814.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth's Poetry: 1787-1814. 3rd edition (Yale Univ. Pr. 1971) Seven years is not, in the ordinary course of events, a long perspective for a retrospective view; but in anything to do with Wordsworth, where retrospect and reclusion constantly ...
Harold Bloom, The Ringers in the Tower.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Harold Bloom, The Ringers in the Tower. (University of Chicago Press, 1971) The Ringers in the Tower is an audacious and probably transitional volume in Harold Bloom's canon of studies in Romantic tradition. The book is a collection of essays with a consistent theme: ...
Andrew Bennett, Wordsworth Writing: Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Andrew Bennett, Wordsworth Writing (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2008.) xi + 249. [pounds sterling]50 / $106 Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are (Yale Studies in English. Yale University Press, 2008.) xvi + ...
Julie Carlson. England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Julie Carlson. England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley. (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) 277 + 50 $50.00. Julie Carlson's England's First Family of Writers is a hard book to summarize, not because it lacks ...
Edward Larrissy, Blake and Modern Literature: Steve Clark and David Worrall, eds. Blake, Nation and Empire.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Edward Larrissy, Blake and Modern Literature (Palgrave, 2006) vi + 188 $65.00 Steve Clark and David Worrall, eds. Blake, Nation and Empire. (Palgrave, 2006) xii + 263 $65.00 Edward Larrissy's Blake and Modern Literature and Steve Clark and David ...
Paul Hamilton, Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Paul Hamilton, Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic. (Continuum, 2007) x + 175. $115.00. A methodologically-innovative monograph, Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic sets a new standard for work on Coleridge as ...
Noel Jackson, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Noel Jackson, Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 288+xiv $95.00 In Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry, Noel Jackson rereads the language of Romantic sense experience attending to how the science of mind and physiology ...
Lori Branch Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Lori Branch Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. (Baylor University Press, 2006) 275 + $44.95 In Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, Lori Branch contributes to "the narrative of ...
Susan Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Susan Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth. (Ashgate Publishing, 2007) vii + 204. [pounds sterling]55.00 / $99.95. In Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s, Susan Manly demonstrates how a populist and materialist ...
Adam Potkay, The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Adam Potkay, The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press 2007) xiii + 304. $99.00 Although studies of love / eros / agape / philia abound, Adam Potkay's Story of Joy ranks as the only full-scale, complete, thoroughly researched, ...