The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin, with Critical Essays by Four Russian Romantic Poets

1972 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
J. Thomas Shaw ◽  
Carl R. Proffer ◽  
Tatiana Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Critical Prose

Swinburne on “The Music of Poetry”

PMLA ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 72 (4-Part-1) ◽  
pp. 680-688
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Algernon Charles Swinburne ◽  
Critical Prose

More than any other critic of his day, Algernon Charles Swinburne judged poetry by its music, but, because Swinburne is so often ignored as a critic, much of what he had to say on this most elusive subject remains buried in his involved critical prose. Yet, what Swinburne had to say about the music of poetry is often instructive, for one so renowned for musical effects in his own poetry demands our attention when he discusses this subject.

scholarly journals The Poet at the Teacher’s Desk: W.H. Auden on Education, Democracy and Humanity

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Ladislav Vít
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
General Level ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Critical Prose

Abstract In the 1930s W.H. Auden taught at several public schools in Britain while simultaneously embarking on his poetic career. Later in life, he lectured at various educational institutions and returned to Oxford, his alma mater, in the 1950s as Oxford Professor of Poetry. His experience of teaching allowed Auden to reflect upon the pitfalls of Britain’s interwar educational system and its social function. Therefore, this article diverts attention from the prevailing scholarly focus on Auden’s poetry to his critical prose in order to examine the poet’s concerns about the content, purpose and role of education in society, his views on the structure of the educational system and disquiet about the tension between the utilitarian and humanistic dimensions of the educational process. At a more general level, the paper points out the relation that Auden maintained existed between education, democracy, art and the “crystallizing” power of poetry.

The Core of Critical Performative Autoethnography

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 602-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Sughrua
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Critical Prose ◽  
Narrative Thread

Taking its cues from, and lending support to, the assertion in the autoethnographic literature that performative autoethnography (PA) is “moral” and “democratic” in its critical engagement, this article theoretically constructs the concepts “moral” and “democratic” in the context of PA. It does this by intersecting the performative theory of Conquergood with the moral philosophy of Dewey and the paradigmatic theory of Adorno, while including an expressionist narrative thread based on urban writer Algren’s critical prose-poem “Chicago: City on the Make,” and while drawing on examples from autoethnography written by the author of this article. As a result, the article, primarily theoretical, situates PA within the long-overlooked and very rarely discussed paradigm “Adorno-esque ‘longing’” where PA is able to “perform” its moral and democratic disposition in a nondogmatic or non-hegemonic manner while seeking social justice.

The Critical Prose of Alexander Pushkin

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Robert P. Hughes ◽  
Carl Proffer ◽  
Alexander Pushkin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Prose

Postures of Dying: Eliot, Seneca and the Elizabethans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit Toda
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Jacobean Drama ◽  
Critical Prose ◽  
Poetic Creation

Abstract This article analyses the substantial intertextual relations between Eliot’s ‘Gerontion’, Seneca’s tragedies, and Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, particularly in the depictions of dying speeches. It demonstrates, too, that ‘Gerontion’ is a prominent example of how Eliot’s poetry anticipates the issues explored in his critical prose—in this case, notably ‘Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca’ and ‘Seneca in Elizabethan Translation’. Further, the article relates the use of what Eliot called ‘saturated’ images in early modern drama and his own poetry with his theories of poetic creation and originality. In so doing, it argues that, contrary to the accepted critical narrative, the famous description of a ‘profound kinship’ with an unnamed ‘dead author’ that Eliot describes in ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry’, may not primarily and exclusively refer to Jules Laforgue.

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 602
Author(s):  
Mona Knapp ◽  
Margaret Atwood
Keyword(s):  
Critical Prose

scholarly journals Coleridge’s Late Confessions: Personification, Convention, and Free Agency

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua King
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Free Agency ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Critical Prose

In this essay, I freshly examine Coleridge’s late poems, asking how several respond to his abiding fear of authors and readers surrendering their free wills to the fashions and conditioned attitudes of nineteenth-century print culture. Connecting this anxiety to Coleridge’s views of personification, the Bible, and his own public image, I interpret his late poems as confessions of the conventional determination of writing and reading that he resisted in his critical prose. This late concession, I suggest, might also be an unexpected defense of free agency: by displaying their conventionality, these late poems appear—at least to several early and recent readers—to reflect the strategy of a self-aware and self-determining poet.

Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Freer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Prose

Wordsworth’s writing detects and investigates pleasures that are overlooked, underacknowledged, and ‘unremembered’. This book explores Wordsworth’s sustained interest in the ethical and aesthetic value of lost, inaccessible, and unfelt pleasure throughout his poetry and critical prose. Such pleasures are marginal and fleeting; they pass by silently and are recognized only retrospectively. Yet they shape the aims, technique, and ultimately the whole affective economy of Wordsworth’s writing. Rather than understanding the domain of pleasure to be subjective personal experience, Wordsworth posits affects and attachments beyond conscious experience and possession. By tracing the intertwined history of romanticism and psychoanalysis, the work teases Wordsworth’s interest in unnoticed experience apart from the psychoanalytic concepts that have shaped our understanding of it. Reading Wordsworth against Freud, it rethinks central critical categories: repression, sublimation, mourning, happiness, pleasure, and the gift. In Wordsworth’s account of composition, it locates the resources to rethink poetic pleasure: not as wish-fulfilment, nor as aesthetic escape, but as an engaged and reparative relation to the world.

Poetic Defences and Manifestos

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Howe
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Status ◽  
Critical Prose

This chapter surveys a range of the period’s critical and polemical writings, from famous works such as Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria and Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry to less well-known works, including Byron’s critical prose and Leigh Hunt’s verse The Feast of the Poets. It assesses some of the main arguments and controversies at stake in these works, such as those surrounding the status of Pope and Wordsworth as poets, and considers the political implications of these debates. The chapter also reflects on how some of the period’s more thoughtful poet-critics responded to the (for some) irreconcilable natures of the polemical and the literary.

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