Table of Contents

Improving the text, John A. Alford; in/en - the syllable of sin in "Paradise Lost" and the syllable of men in "The Prelude", 12-14, R.A. Shoaf; public lectures and private societies - expounding literature and the arts in Romantic London, David Hadley; Keats's "Chapman's Homer" and the vagaries of identification, D. Allen Carroll; the bittersweet of Keats's liberal imagination, Donald Schoonmaker; the "True Utility" of Shelley's method in "A Defence of Poetry", James Bunn; evangelical principles of Tennyson's "In Memoriam"; tales of an ancient mariner - W.B. Yeats on the decadents, Richard Fallis; Wagnerian Romanticism in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening".

About the Author

John A. Alford taught at Michigan State University, the University of California-Irvine, the University of Virginia, Leeds University (U.K.) and elsewhere. His books and articles cover a wide range of subjects from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from medieval rhetoric to modern critical theory. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the Guggenheim Foundation.