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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis issue of The Wordsworth Circle, "Lyric Elements," takes its bearings from a special session of the same name at the 2019 meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in Chicago. The...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCONTEXT Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed "Frost at Midnight" in February 1798, and in the same year published that poem with two others in a pamphlet of twenty-three pages: Fears in Solitude, written in 1798, during...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLyrics elegize the moment of their own making. Given lyric's controversial status as an object of scholarly inquiry over the last two decades, such a statement might register as truism, speculation, or misguided...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe foundational text in the "New Lyric Studies" was Dickinson's Misery by Virginia Jackson, a work that questions whether the poems Dickinson wrote can be called "lyrics"--and going further, whether there is such a...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAll the varieties of material substances may be resolved into a small number of bodies, which, as they are not capable of being decompounded, are considered in the present state of chemical knowledge as elements. --H....
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. --Audre Lorde, "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" (37) This essay considers the notion of a "global...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Poetry inherently involves the structuring of sound," declares Marjorie Perloff in the introduction to The Sound of Poetry / Poetry of Sound, but "however central the sound dimension is to any and all poetry, no other...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn what his editors call his middle period--from the mid-1820s into the early 1830s--John Clare composed many sonnets on the subject of the creatures and landscapes of his native Helpston. These poems are deeply engaged...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, to be conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph reviewed during the previous year in...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt the heart of Lyrical Ballads's 1798 edition, and in the middle of the 1800 edition's first volume, lies one of William Wordsworth's cleverest traps. It may actually be too clever for its own good, or at least its own...