Eager Imagination
A tour through modern American poetry and poetics
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Kenneth Burke: Form and Desire in Modern Poetry
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Kenneth Burke argues for the importance of desire in the functioning of literature. More specifically, he sees a text as a structure that wo...
Friday, August 7, 2009
William Empson, New Criticism, and Dream-Worlds
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There's no doubt much to say about William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity , but I want to hone in specifically on what he has to ...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
W. K. Wimsatt on the Unity of Imagery
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W. K. Wimsatt's essay "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery" is a typical -- and typically useful -- New Critical essay. H...
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