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Power And The Poet, Spencer Hall Jan 1983

Power And The Poet, Spencer Hall

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In this examination of the English Romantic poet P. B. Shelley, Spencer Hall takes a new direction into the critical review of this work. Whereas traditional thought expresses a metaphysical belief or revelation in regards to Shelley's Power myth, Hall provides a new perspective of deep-seated skepticism. By focusing on the function of the poem rather than a symbolic meaning, Hall seeks to show that the myth is a subjective attribute of human experience rather than supernatural and should be taken as a metaphor used in a variety of ways.

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Divergent Composition Patterns And Editorial Problems In Clough's Poetry, Patrick G. Scott Nov 1982

Divergent Composition Patterns And Editorial Problems In Clough's Poetry, Patrick G. Scott

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Describes the characteristic ways in which the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) wrote and revised his poetry, arguing that Clough's most creative works came when his revision pattern diverged from his original idea, rather than refining it (converging), and explores the implications of Clough's divergent composition method for the editing of his major poems, including "Adam and Eve" ("The Mystery of the Fall") and "Dipsychus." Originally presented at the Textual and Bibliographical Studies section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, October 1982.

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Diverse Journeys: Free-Writing, John Keats, And The Teaching Of Poetry, Patrick G. Scott Jan 1982

Diverse Journeys: Free-Writing, John Keats, And The Teaching Of Poetry, Patrick G. Scott

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Reports on teaching John Keats's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," using timed and cued freewriting as a preliminary to class discussion, and links the exercise to passages from Keats's letters about reading and personal literary response. At time of publication, the writer was not provided with proofs of the article, so the version linked here has handwritten corrections added.

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Matthew Arnold And Minimum Competency: The Nineteenth-Century British Experience With National Basic Skills Assessment, Patrick G. Scott Jan 1980

Matthew Arnold And Minimum Competency: The Nineteenth-Century British Experience With National Basic Skills Assessment, Patrick G. Scott

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Discusses the British government's introduction in 1861-62 of the Revised Code, under Robert Lowe, tying government funding of elementary schools to annual examination of the progress made by each child in the basic skills of Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, and the satiric perspective on the debate given by the poet and essayist Matthew Arnold, himself one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, charged with implementing Lowe's reforms. Many of the issues about local and national curriculum, state funding of education, the importance of basic or core skills in relation to breadth, and the best means to assess teacher effectiveness have …

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John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott Dec 1979

John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott

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Discusses the early career and later development of the twentieth-century British novelist John Fowles, and compares the fictional technique of his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) with that of the Victorian writer James Anthony Froude's novella The Lieutenant's Daughter (1847). First presented at the Modern Language Association of America, annual convention, New York, December 1979.

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Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall Jan 1979

Wordsworth's Later Style, Spencer Hall

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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 …

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Shelley, Mrs. Mason And The Devil Incarnate: An Unpublished Poem, Paula R. Feldman Jan 1979

Shelley, Mrs. Mason And The Devil Incarnate: An Unpublished Poem, Paula R. Feldman

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The Specter Of Bernard’S Noon-Day Demon In Medieval Drama, Kathleen M. Ashley Phd Jan 1979

The Specter Of Bernard’S Noon-Day Demon In Medieval Drama, Kathleen M. Ashley Phd

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Cinematic Auguries Of The Third Reich In Gravity's Rainbow, David Cowart Oct 1978

Cinematic Auguries Of The Third Reich In Gravity's Rainbow, David Cowart

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A Study Of Re-Writing In The Poetry Of Arthur Hugh Clough, Patrick G. Scott Jul 1976

A Study Of Re-Writing In The Poetry Of Arthur Hugh Clough, Patrick G. Scott

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A 365-page study of how the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) created the distinctive self-conscious voice and multiple ironies of his poetry, with eight chapters providing (1), p. 1, an introduction arguing that the apparent problem of unfinishedness in much of his best poetry is closely linked to his creativity, followed by detailed accounts of his writing process in (2), p. 26, his early poetry at Rugby school; (3), p. 49, his shorter poetry written as a student and teacher in Oxford, including the poems collected in the volume Ambarvalia [1849]; (4), p. 101, his unfinished poem on the …

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Shelley's Mont Blanc, Spencer Hall Apr 1973

Shelley's Mont Blanc, Spencer Hall

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"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.

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Mallock And Clough: A Correction, Patrick G. Scott Dec 1971

Mallock And Clough: A Correction, Patrick G. Scott

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Wordworth's "Lucy" Poems, Spencer Hall Jan 1971

Wordworth's "Lucy" Poems, Spencer Hall

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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.

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Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott Jan 1970

Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott

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Examines the reception, sources, composition and publication history, and narrative structure of Tennyson's bestselling narrative poem Enoch Arden (1864), discussing particularly the poem's relation to the sensation novel and the way it was interpreted by its first illustrators, in adaptation for the stage, and in early film versions by D.W. Griffiths and J. M. East.

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