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Arbitrary Power, Spencer Hall
Arbitrary Power, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach is reviewed. The book is praised for its assessment of the language and style of Romantic poetry in light of history.
Shelley's Mont Blanc, Spencer Hall
Shelley's Mont Blanc, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
"Mont Blanc" studies the relationship between the poet and the omnipotent. Spencer Hall questions the attribution of the supernatural to Shelley's thinking. Hall sees Shelley as creating a non-transcendental and hybrid confluence of emotions and ideas. Shelley concept of the sublime is not intuited by the poet, but rather constructed and projected by him. It is a process in which the imagination is primary.
Wordworth's "Lucy" Poems, Spencer Hall
Wordworth's "Lucy" Poems, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
This essay seeks to provide meaning and a context for interpretation of the Romantic "Lucy" poems by William Wordsworth. Hall argues against two critics' opposing interpretations by suggesting the meaning is humanistic which provides somewhat of a clarity into Wordsworth's poetic development. Hall suggests that his proposed context into these poems isn't merely one dimensional, but multi-faceted and draws upon other critics.
Refashioning A Wordsworthian Tradition, Spencer Hall
Refashioning A Wordsworthian Tradition, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
In this review of the critical approaches to Wordsworthian study, Spencer Hall discusses the contrast between theory and academic study of Wordsworthian poetry and their links to each other. Wordsworth is discussed in that of the "problematic Wordsworth" and that of the "programmatic Wordsworth." The two sides show how one thought was a product of imagination which was perpetuated in our time and the other from current academic theories. Hall brings to the forefront that by recognizing the interconnectedness of Wordsworthian studies and contemporary theorizing, the issues of literary studies and liberal education can be engaged with Wordsworth.
Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall
Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
This review studies gender discrimination in academic Romantic criticism. It brings to light the influence of the works of William Wordsworth on women poets. The review takes a look at the term "Wordsworth" and suggests it needs to be viewed not as a masculinist concept, but as a product of the combination of he and his wife's, Dorothy Wordsworth, works. The review states the book goes further past the knowledge that William used some of his wife's material as his "raw material" for his poetry and suggests that Dorothy intended to supply William with data.
Beyond The Realms Of Dream, Spencer Hall
Beyond The Realms Of Dream, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
Mary Shelley's Alastor is analyzed in light of the relationship between Gothic and Romantic literature. The relationship between Gothicism and Romanticism is assessed in light of literature. Shelly's poem is held up as a representation of mature Gothic literature owing a debt to Romanticism.
The Ideal, The Rhetorical, And The Erotic, Spencer Hall
The Ideal, The Rhetorical, And The Erotic, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
In this review of English Romanticism Spencer Hall examines two works in regards to the intense interest in P. B. Shelley's works. Hall uses many examples to demonstrate why Shelley has become so popular and why he will be in the years to come. With the ongoing critical reexamination of Shelley's works, and evidence of teachers use in their classrooms and in undergraduate studies, the passionate intensity that is undertaken affirms how "hot" Shelley really is.
Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall
Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
The three "close readings" described in the March 1978 Editor's Column were introduced with this line from Marianne Moore: "we do not admire what we cannot understand." The proposition is, of course, as patently false to experience as is Keats's at the end of the "Ode on a Grecian Urn." We often admire exceedingly what we do not understand, precisely because we do not understand it. This is as true of literary criticism as of religious revelation (the two activities having become strangely similar these days), and one of the three "close readings" referred to is a significant case in …