Recently added articles from Wordsworth Circle:
The unromantic lives of others: the lost generation of the 1790s.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... I am willing to accept that there could be a genre or sub-genre of biographical writing that could be usefully designated by the term, "Romantic biography." That is, a qualitative definition, rather than a quantitative description of all the biographies ever written about the British ...
"True impossibility": editing Byron.(George Byron)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The title of my paper is a grateful salute to Jerome McGann and it refers to what he said about editing the Clarendon Byron: "having at last learned what scholarly editing entailed, I began to realize the true impossibility of the task I had [ ...] undertaken." (1) Earlier this year I ...
Twisty little passages: the several editions of Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Glenarvon was published in 1816 by Henry Colburn, who advanced Lady Caroline Lamb [pounds sterling]200 with an agreement to pay [pounds sterling]300 upon publication. He must have anticipated decent sales, for he had recently paid an established writer, Lady Morgan, about the same amount ...
Coleridge's Captain Derkheim.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Moses Myers Derkheim )(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... When Coleridge returned to England from Italy in 1806, he landed at Stagate Creek, the quarantine station for ships with clean bills of health, on August 17, and was in London by the following day. (1) On August 19, he wrote to Robert Southey of the horrors of the sea journey and of how ...
The Revolt of Islam: vegetarian Shelley and the narrative of mental pathology.(Percy Bysshe Shelley)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In his Preface to Prometheus Unbound (1820) Percy Bysshe Shelley declares that his imagery has "been drawn from the operations of the human mind." Similarly in The Revolt of Islam (1818) Shelley attempts to translate the imagery of the "labouring brain," inherently incommunicable, into a ...