THE REGENERATION OF THE HUMAN RACE
Wordsworth is pictured here around the year 1800. Under review here is the first in a series of 10 books, examining (mostly English) literature decade by decade from 1800-1900. This…
He knows everything in the world about Milton!
My headline is taken from a novel by Virginia Woolf (pictured here). In Mrs Dalloway (1925), the character named in the title is “someone who can’t understand the pleasures of…
Stoicism: The enemy of Wordsworth’s muse
Photo: William Wordsworth Jacob Risinger, assistant professor of English at Ohio State University, has written a truly extraordinary book. The accepted worldview is that stoicism and romanticism mix like water…
BLANK SPLENDOUR: Caught between Infinity and Finitude
““Never can there be anything more between us,” Lady Grace said passionately to Lord John, as she rebuffed his marriage proposal. “Never, no, never!” Aghast and defeated, he sank after…