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 […]
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”),94) 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 […]
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