Scholarship and Its Phantoms: Anthony Burgess’s Shakespeare and “fin de siècle” Conceptions of Genius Frédéric Regard Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) This short article is a revised version of a paper given on the occasion of the Fifth Conference of the European Society for the Study of English held […]
Dracula and the Idea of Europe Eleni Coundouriotis Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) “… and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” (35) Our persistent interest in the politics of Dracula—whether they pertain to Ireland, class conflict, gender, or empire—acknowledges the historical relevance […]
Classroom Capers: The Case for Using Mnemonics William E. Engel Published in Connotations Vol. 9.2 (1999/2000) Above all, the memory of children should be trained and exercised: for this is, as it were, a storehouse of learning; and it is for this reason that the mythologists have made Memory the […]
W. B. Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter”: The Ironies of the Patriarchal Stance Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) Modifying Shelley’s view of poetry as prophesy, which so sharply contrasts with Marianne Moore’s ostensibly skeptical attitude to poetry (“I too dislike it”),51) William Butler Yeats has written […]
A Visitation of Kipling’s Daemon? M. M. Mahood Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) Like Longfellow’s infant daughter, Kipling, when he is good, is very, very good, but when he is bad, he is horrid: the loud jingoist of Max Beerbohm’s parodies and caricatures. This disparity between Kipling the hooligan […]
Poetic Procreation in Edward Taylor’s Meditations Ursula Brumm Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) Edward Taylor’s poetry is a special case: its most important part are meditations of a Puritan clergyman put into poetic form as a mental exercise in preparation of administering the Lord’s Supper. In that personal function […]
A Boy in the Listening: On Voice, Space, and Rebirth in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas Eynel Wardi Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) This essay addresses the relation between voice and space in the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of the desire for self−generation enacted in it.110) Focusing […]
Living Temples and Extemporal Song Frances Malpezzi Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) In “Cold Monuments” John Russell Brown reminds us of the extraordinary complexity of poetic endeavor. While it may take a village to raise a child, bringing a poem to fruition and keeping it alive involves many people […]
Response to John Russell Brown Donald Cheney Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) While it is true that we are speaking metaphorically when we talk about poetry as procreation, I would argue that all such metaphors demand and reward thorough scrutiny, whether or not they may finally “bear” it. Metaphors […]
Cold Monuments: Three Accounts of the Reception of Poetry John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 9.1 (1999/2000) Some poets talk of giving birth to a poem and being in the throes of composition, as if poetry were some form of procreation. To be sure, they carry poems in their […]
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