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"The New Poetic Power": The Imaginative Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traditional interpretors of literature might perceive little justification for discussing the poetry of the English Romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, in conjunction with that of the German ...
Through Reason to Imagination: The Intellectual Development of C. S. Lewis (1922-1960)
Lewis' literary transformation is, too, complete. The Oxford youth who intended to fashion a philosophic New Look simply because he was "against government" surrendered not only his will but also his reason to the depths ...
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ...
The Dynamic Interaction Between the Poet and the People in Slam Poetry
Slam is a revolutionary force in contemporary American poetry, and, increasingly, in global poetry. Much of the power of this movement harkens from its ability to draw upon ancestral memories, restoring poetry to its roots ...
Chaucer's Pardoner and the Tyranny of Penance
In the context of the tale-telling game that frames the Canterbury Tales, the reader anticipates a wide variety of different stories and forms as each pilgrim takes his or her tum. What we do not anticipate, however, is ...
The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom: An Attempt to Find What Will Suffice
Standards of morality have changed to the extent that James Joyce's Ulysses is no longer condemned for being exceptionaIly obscene. Almost fifty years after its publication, however, Joyce's novel remains notorious for ...
Journeys of Shakespearience: Fathers and Daughters in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1993 Productions of The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and The Tempest
Three of the plays in the RSC's 1993 Stratford-upon-Avon season fortuitously fit the paradigm of a journey by exploring the journey towards maturation of fathers and daughters. These three plays are The Merchant of Venice ...
Narrative Challenges to the Hero in Welsh Myth and Modern Fantasy
Given that these vast differences exist between the challenges the heroes face in the Welsh tales and the challenges the heroes face in the modern tales, it would almost seem impossible to find basis for a comparison of ...
The Rhetorical Self of Alexander Pope's Imitations of Horace
In his Imitations of Horace. Alexander Pope undertakes a very special task. Borrowing from the classical tradition, he creates a very characteristic poetic self which quickly becomes apparent to the reader. His linguistic, ...