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A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors Nov 2017

A Neglected Source For Burns Manuscripts? Some Old Guides For Autograph Collectors

Patrick Scott

Discusses the continuing value of older, prephotographic, facsimiles of Burns's manuscripts, and illustrates a variety of examples of Burns's handwriting from Victorian guide for autograph collectors, and the evidence they can provide to Burns editors. .


The Politics Of Shelley: History, Theory, Form, Matthew C. Borushko | Editor Sep 2015

The Politics Of Shelley: History, Theory, Form, Matthew C. Borushko | Editor

Matthew Borushko

This essay collection takes as its starting point a 2001 volume in the Romantic Circles Praxis Series, Reading Shelley’s Interventionist Poetry, 1819-1820, in which volume-editor Michael Scrivener, employing Theodor Adorno's terminology, identifies a binary in Shelley's "interventionist" work: the "antinomy of commitment and autonomy." Asking what it means for a work of art to intervene in its immediate political context, this volume asserts the necessity of seeing through and beyond the antinomy of political commitment and artistic autonomy by rereading and reimagining the political in Shelley’s writings and his legacy. Indeed, the essays in this volume chart new political …


Percy Shelley's A Defence Of Poetry: A Discussion, Maureen N. Mclane, Eric Alan Weinstein, Omar Miranda, Colin Jagaer, Susan Wolfson Feb 2015

Percy Shelley's A Defence Of Poetry: A Discussion, Maureen N. Mclane, Eric Alan Weinstein, Omar Miranda, Colin Jagaer, Susan Wolfson

Eric Alan Weinstein

An Addendum to the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; filmed at The offices of the English Department of NYU in New York City, Kelly Writers House at U Penn, and the office of Susan Wolfson, English Dept, McCosh Hall, Princeton University. Materials published in OpenLearning's The Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. --- Eric Alan Weinstein


Considering Shelley's England In 1819: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (2 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (2 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at Upenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.


Some Comments On Percy Shelley & The Thought Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee Feb 2015

Some Comments On Percy Shelley & The Thought Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at Upenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.


The Figure Of Prometheus & The Revolutionary Moment, Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

The Figure Of Prometheus & The Revolutionary Moment, Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

A short talk about Percy Shelley, his family, the French and American Revolutions, and the importance of the figure of Prometheus in the Romantic era.

Penn Shelley Seminar Series, featured in OpenLearnings's Unbinding Prometheus MOOC on Percy Shelley. Part of The Great Poems Series.

Eric Alan Weinstein


Reading Aloud: Lord Byron's Prometheus, Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Reading Aloud: Lord Byron's Prometheus, Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

A reading of Lord Byron's poem, Prometheus by Eric Alan Weinstein. Penn Shelley Seminar Series, featured in OpenLearnings's Unbinding Prometheus MOOC on Percy Shelley. Part of The Great Poems Series. Unit 1, Module 2 (Prometheus Cluster), Video 2 Recorded at Van Pelt Library, Fall term, 2014.


Ideas Which Shaped Shelley, Ideas Shelley Shaped, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee Feb 2015

Ideas Which Shaped Shelley, Ideas Shelley Shaped, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein


Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Binding And Form: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Binding And Form: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein


Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Langston Hughes: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Langston Hughes: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn. Materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC.


Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Stanza 2 & 3: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Stanza 2 & 3: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. --- Eric Alan Weinstein


Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Blake's London: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein Feb 2015

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Blake's London: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.


On Reading & Teaching The Modern Long Poem, With Reference To Williams's 'Paterson' & Two Passages From Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Eric Alan Weinstein, Alan Filreis Jan 2015

On Reading & Teaching The Modern Long Poem, With Reference To Williams's 'Paterson' & Two Passages From Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Eric Alan Weinstein, Alan Filreis

Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein and Al Filreis spent some time in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House talking about the problematics of the modern long poem. Can it be taught? Why is it so challenging, despite its central importance? The discussion is intentionally general at first, but soon Eric and Al turn to Eliot's The Waste Land, and in particular to two modally quite distinct passages from the poem. This is a PennSound podcast, number 46 in the ongoing series. To see all episodes at once please see the PennSound archive. To see the series as part of Jacket2 …