Some Notes on the ‘Single Sentiment’ and Romanticism of Charlotte Smith1) Sandro Jung Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Canon revision has not only established that there is a Romantic novel in general but it has also re−established Charlotte Smith’s achievement as a novelist as well as a poet. My […]
Making Friends of Stage and Page: A Response to Alan Rosen Judith Rosenheim Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) In his “Impertinent Matters: Lancelot Gobbo and the Fortunes of Performance Criticism,” Alan Rosen addresses the continuing interest that Launcelot, the clown in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, generates in his apparent […]
Well-Wishing Adventurers: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Narrative Poems by A. D. Cousins and Recent Responses to Shakespeare’s Non-Dramatic Verse Liam Semler Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Although the Fair Youth is not Hamlet, the ageing Speaker not Lear, and the Dark Lady (anxiety−inducing though she be) not Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s […]
Edward II, “Actaeonesque History,” Espionage and Performance Rick Bowers Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Christopher Wessman relates the Actaeon story from classical myth to the concerns of Marlowe’s Edward II in terms of metaphor, history, tragedy, and politics. Richly textured and informative, his argument along mythological lines reveals much […]
Identifying Marlowe’s Radicalism: A Response to Christopher Wessman Anthony DiMatteo Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) Marlowe’s Edward II offers as ripe a work of drama as one can imagine for bringing into the light of day how political theatre, that is, the politics of theatre and the theatre that […]
Response to Christopher Wessman, “Marlowe’s Edward II as ‘Actaeonesque History'” Felicia Bonaparte and Jakob Stern Published in Connotations Vol. 9.3 (1999/2000) If Christopher Wessman is right in his suggestive and enlightening essay, and we are convinced he is, one way to describe what Marlowe does by embedding the myth of […]
Agency in Vaughan’s Sacred Poetry: Creative Acts or Divine Gifts? Donald Dickson Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) Henry Vaughan was certainly familiar with the classical trope of the poem as child “fathered” by its creator. Like many poets of the Renaissance, he made witty use of it in both […]
Speaking for the Infant: On Yeats’s “A Prayer for my Daughter” Charles Lock Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) Leona Toker’s defence of Yeats’s “A Prayer for my Daughter” is advantageously placed in the context of a debate over “Poetry as Procreation.” For it is in that context that such […]
Cold Monuments Animated: A Receptive Response to John Russell Brown Eynel Wardi Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) J. R. Brown’s contribution to the Connotations symposium on “Poetry as Procreation” was an animated and animating paper on the reception of poetry. His choice of topic, as the paper demonstrates, was […]
My Poet is Better than Your Poet: A Response to Rajeev Patke John Whalen-Bridge Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) I am, shall I say, slightly saddened. I wrote an essay about poet Gary Snyder explaining how we human beings can sit down and have a nice chat with rocks […]
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