and we are often told so, whether in hokey popular sayings (“It takes a heap of
living to make a house a home”) or lifestyle instructions in the pages of House (
not Home) & Garden: “Wallpaper emits a warmth, a cheer, that makes a house a
...
Architecture
77 St Marks Place
March 2020
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Lives of Houses
and we are often told so, whether in hokey popular sayings (“It takes a heap of
living to make a house a home”) or lifestyle instructions in the pages of House (
not Home) & Garden: “Wallpaper emits a warmth, a cheer, that makes a house a
...
Architecture
Coleridge's Desultoriness
January 2020
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Journal article
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Studies in Romanticism
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Eliot, Blake, Unpleasantness
November 2018
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Journal article
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T.S. Eliot Studies Annual
Coleridgean Politics
October 2018
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Journal article
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Wordsworth Circle
Hughes and Urbanity
September 2018
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Chapter
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Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture
That’s what Wystan says
May 2018
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Review of Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Edward Mendelson, Princeton University Press, pp. 912, May 2017, ISBN 978 0 691 17249 1
That’s what Wystan says
May 2018
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Dead Ground
January 2018
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Chapter
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Dead Ground 2018-1918
This volume focuses on the legacy of war since the Great War - the conflict hailed by H.G. Wells as 'The War to End All War' - primarily as affecting Britain (and Ireland) but also the former Soviet Union.
English literature
Eliot, Blake, and unpleasantness
January 2018
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Chapter
The Waste Land is full of different voices, as handsomely established by a long tradition of criticism, latterly crowned by the magnificent edition of Ricks and McCue (on which I draw extensively here). In the poem you can find Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Joyce; and, I am going to say, Blake. He is an incongruous participant in the chorus in various ways, not least in that while Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and even Joyce, continued to sound in Eliot’s work, Blake seems to have faded away as Eliot moved on; but for a short time in the early 1920s, I am suggesting, Blake played an important role in the drama of Eliot’s imagination, and, in particular, helped him toward the distinctive, metropolitan poetry of The Waste Land.
Against Our Ruin
December 2017
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Media
Hayden Lorimer, from the ruins of a modern architectural masterpiece on the banks of the River Clyde, asks poets, thinkers and entropy tourists why we love fragments and scraps more than finished art works. With Alice Oswald and Patrick McGuinness, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, and the music of Bob Dylan, Pere Ubu and Christian Marclay. These fragments I have shored against my ruins, wrote TS Eliot in The Waste Land. Are we all cultural vultures now?
Rollercoasters: Romantics to the Present Day
September 2017
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Book
An inspiring collection of poetry from the Romantics period to present day, collated by trusted editors in literature, Seamus Perry and David Womersley. Including powerful themes of Youth and Age, Love and relationships, War and conflict and many more, this collection is ideal for both a captivating read and for early preparation for GCSE English Language and Literature requirements.
Auden Anxieties
August 2017
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Journal article
Arnold's missed rhymes
July 2017
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Journal article
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Romanticism
Matthew Arnold's poetry has often been criticised for its technical ineptitude, including the inadequacy of its rhymes. This essay argues that Arnold was particularly attuned to the scope and possibility of rhyme, and (by extension) misrhyme, and that his practice demonstrates this awareness; and, using a range of examples from across his works, the essays seeks to show the ways in which misrhyme and missing rhyme contribute to the distinctive atmosphere of his verse.
poetry, misrhyme, lyric, Victorian,, rhyme, Arnold
The Poetical Character
June 2017
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Chapter
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John Keats in Context
This volume provides frameworks for enhanced analysis and appreciation of Keats and his work, with each chapter supplying a succinct, informed, and accessible account of a particular topic.
Literary Criticism
Looking at Larkin
May 2017
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Internet publication
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Tim Fulford, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries [review]
January 2017
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Journal article
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Coleridge Bulletin
Was that some kind of joke?
January 2017
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Chapter
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Joker in the Pack
Against the same-old same-old
November 2016
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
<p>(From introduction) Romanticism bequeathed a good many things to the beleaguered modern imagination, one of the most provoking of which was the thought that it should get out more. That bit of advice proved all the more challenging because it contradicted the other basic idea which the Romantics left behind – namely, that what mattered was staying inside, wrapped in the private world of subjectivity and ‘mental space’. To this view of things, the raw stuff of what’s out there was at best merely grist to the mill of consciousness: a true modern genius displayed itself, Coleridge said (he coined the phrase ‘mental space’), as ‘a fleeting away of external things, the mind or subject greater than the object’. Coleridge was much preoccupied by such thoughts: Carlyle remembered him sitting in his Highgate den, snuffling interminably about ‘sum-m-mjects’ and ‘om-m-mjects’; and other writers chose a less philosophical idiom to pursue the same sort of notion. Coleridge’s collaborator Wordsworth, for instance, pauses at one point in his verse autobiography to sound the note in his own way: ‘Of genius, power,/Creation and divinity itself/I have been speaking, for my theme has been/What passed within me.’ Rarely can such weight have fallen on those formerly unostentatious words ‘within’ and ‘me’. It’s not so far from that to the stylishly belligerent thing that Picasso is said to have said: ‘I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.’(continued in full text)</p>
Review
Angry, difficult D. H. Lawrence
November 2016
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
Thomas Hardy in London
November 2016
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Internet publication
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Against the same-old same-old
November 2016
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
An ordinary nothing
November 2016
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
Thrill of the Chase
November 2016
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Journal article
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Literary Review
Auden’s Lear
August 2016
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Chapter
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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
This collection of essays, the first ever devoted solely to Lear, builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight, and to challenge our sense of what poetry can be.
Peter Larkin, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Promising Losses
July 2016
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Journal article
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Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism
What Lies Beneath - Housman Country: Into the Heart of Englandby Peter Parker
July 2016
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Journal article
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Literary Review
Robert Langbaum's Continuing Romanticism
June 2016
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Journal article
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Wordsworth Circle
City, paralysis, epiphany: an introduction to Dubliners
May 2016
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Internet publication
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Presences in the Waste Land
May 2016
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Internet publication
T S Eliot's The Waste Land is full of references to other literary works. Seamus Perry takes a look at four of the most important literary presences in the poem: Shakespeare, Dante, James Joyce and William Blake
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Waterloo and the poets: a speech after dinner
April 2016
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Journal article
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Keats-Shelley Review
SBTMR
The Beauties of T.S. Eliot
April 2015
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Chapter
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The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns
Stylish Mind - Bernard Williams [Book review]
April 2014
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Journal article
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Literary Review
Coleridge’s disappointment in The Excursion
January 2014
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Journal article
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Wordsworth Circle
The Connell Guide to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
January 2014
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Book
‘Hardy’s Imperfections’
January 2014
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
Bats! [Book review]
November 2013
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
D. H. Lawrence THE POEMS Edited by Christopher Pollnitz Two volumes, 1,440pp
Half-Fox (Ted Hughes)
August 2013
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Auden’s Forms
January 2013
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Chapter
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W. H. Auden in Context
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4702 Cultural Studies, 3602 Creative and Professional Writing, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Coleridge, Romanticism, and the Orient
January 2013
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Book
Was coleridge green?
December 2012
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Chapter
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Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green
Selected Verse [Book review]
May 2012
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
The Shoreham Gang [Book review]
June 2011
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Review of Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
'So Striking a Miss-Hit' (Hardy)
April 2011
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Journal article
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Times Literary Supplement
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
March 2011
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Literary Criticism
'Are we there yet?' (Tennyson)
January 2011
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Wordsworth, Mill, and the Force of Habit
January 2011
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Journal article
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The Wordsworth Circle
Look on the Bright Side (Anna Letitia Barbauld
February 2010
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Romantic Poetry: An Overview
January 2010
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History if English Poetry
Wordsworth's Pluralism
January 2010
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Chapter
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Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference
Not unnoting all things [Book review]
November 2009
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
Review of Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook (ed.) Dalziel, P, Millgate, M.
Betjeman's Tennyson
October 2009
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Chapter
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Tennyson Among the Poets
A revaluation of Tennyson's achievements and influence. Explores the multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers: his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Coleridge's Responses Selected Writings on Literary Criticism, the Bible and Nature
March 2008
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Book
Covering Coleridge's wide-ranging criticism of other writers and statements on writing itself, his analysis and observation of nature and its powers and his enlightened view of the Bible achieved through constant study and annotation, this ...
Literary Criticism
Coleridge on Writing and Writers
January 2008
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Scholarly edition
Eliot and Coleridge
January 2008
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Chapter
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Coleridge’s Afterlives
Coleridge in England
December 2007
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Chapter
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The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
This collection of essays by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records how Coleridge's works have been received, translated and interpreted across Europe from his own time to today, and will contribute to the new ...
Literary Criticism
Coleridge, Christ, and Contradiction in Empson
November 2007
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Chapter
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Some Versions of Empson
The effect is of a literary mad-song, pitched at that pitch of nonsense we find in King Lear, and subliminally linked by the thread of misogyny we find in Marlowe, the Shakespeare sonnets, Lear, and Milton's Samson. In Some Versions Empson...
Literary Criticism
Empson’s Coleridges
January 2007
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Chapter
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Some Versions of Empson
Joy Perplexed: Optimism and Complication in Wordsworth, T.H. Green and A.C. Bradley
July 2006
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
Self-Management [Book review]
January 2006
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Journal article
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London Review of Books
Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810 edited by Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. [Book review]
Alfred Tennyson
January 2005
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Book
In this study, Seamus Perry returns to the extraordinary language of Tennyson's verse, and finds in the intricacies of his greatest poetry, not an evasion of responsibilities, but rather the memorably intricate expression of hesitancies and ...
Literary Criticism
Arnold and Multipicity
Conference paper
Arnold and Poetry
Conference paper
Auden Unparadised
Conference paper
Auden Unparadised
Conference paper
Clough’s Juxtapositions’
Conference paper
Coleridge and the Pun
Conference paper
Coleridge, William Empson, and Japan
Conference paper
Hallam and Coleridge
Conference paper
Hazlitt’s Coleridge
Conference paper
Plenary Lecture: Undoubtedly the Stupidest: Tennyson in the Age of Auden
Conference paper
Tennyson’s Immaturity
Conference paper
Writing to Length
Journal article
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Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism
"No hope of me": Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Wordsworths in 1810