Self-Imposed Fetters in Four Golden Age Villanelles Frank J. Kearful Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract The article analyzes four villanelles from what has been called the Golden Age of the villanelle during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s: Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night,” Theodore […]
Wordsworth’s “The Baker’s Cart” Venus Bargouth Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract This essay offers a historicized reading of William Wordsworth’s “The Baker’s Cart,” a fragment written between late 1796 and early 1797 at a time of rising bread prices but never titled or published by the poet himself. […]
Shifting Perspectives on Law in De Doctrina Christiana: A Response to Filippo Falcone Jason A. Kerr Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract In his reply to Filippo Falcone’s article on questions concerning Milton’s authorship of De Doctrina Christiana, Jason A. Kerr approaches the argument from a historical perspective: “is […]
Herbert presents the demands and results of poetic form as part of his poetic depiction of human collaboration with the divine, while Vaughan adopts similar formal constraints as an exercise of imitatio, enabling a voice of visionary union between God and the poet.
1943 William Harmon Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) I read the book that says “1943” and am persuaded. Then I read a decapitating review that says “not 1943” and am confused. Then I read a denigrating reply to the review that says “1943” and am dismayed but reassured. A […]
“You Are Black Inside”: Class, Race, and Sexuality in John Gray’s Park Edward Lobb Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract John Gray (1866-1934) was a fin-de-siècle poet who moved briefly in the Wilde circle and was one of the models for Wilde’s Dorian Gray. Gray cut all ties with […]
In her entry into the debate on close reading John Donne, Heather Dubrow responds to the articles by Judith Anderson and Theresa M. DiPasquale, both published in Connotations 27.
Revisiting the Aesopic Race in the Late Twentieth Century: New Facets of Speed in Vikram Seth’s “The Hare and The Tortoise” Bircan Nizamoğlu Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract Vikram Seth’s “The Hare and The Tortoise” (1991) is a comic rewriting of Aesop’s age-old fable. Seth answers the question […]
More Context and Less: A Response to Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff Carolin Hahnemann Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract In her response to Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff’s article on Alice Oswald’s poem “Memorial,” Carolin Hahnemann addresses how a wider understanding of recontextualization in relation to the poem’s […]
John Lyly and the Most Misread Speech in Shakespeare Frederick Kiefer Published in Connotations Vol. 28 (2019) Abstract Hamlet’s “What a piece of work is a man” speech has inspired disparate assessments. E. M. W. Tillyard and his followers saw it as a précis of Elizabethan attitudes. These days Shakespeareans […]
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