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How can Romantic poetry, motivated by the poet's intense yearning to impart his thoughts and feelings, be so often difficult and the cause of readerly misunderstanding? How did it come to be that a poet can compose a verbal artwork, carefully and lovingly put together, and send it out into the world at the same time that he is adopting a stance against communication? This book addresses these questions by showing that the period's writers were responding to the beginnings of our networked world of rampant mediated communication. The Connected Condition reveals that major Romantic poets shared a great attraction and skepticism toward the dream of perfectible, efficient connectivity that has driven the modern culture of communication.

English poetry --- Communication --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- British Romanticism. --- John Keats. --- Percy Shelley. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- William Wordsworth. --- communication. --- infrastructure. --- literature. --- media. --- poetry. --- 18.05 English literature. --- Communication. --- Englisch. --- English poetry. --- Lyrik. --- Romanticism. --- History and criticism --- 1700-1799. --- England.

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"After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination. The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern, pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal."--

Romanticism --- Diseases in literature. --- Smallpox in literature. --- Vaccination in literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Vaccination --- Literature and medicine --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- England. --- Arthur Conan Doyle. --- COVID. --- Darwin. --- Edward Jenner. --- John Keats. --- Mary Shelley. --- Romantic literature. --- William Blake. --- William Wordsworth. --- anti-vaccination. --- epidemics. --- illness narrative. --- pandemic. --- smallpox. --- vaccination.

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In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.

Death in literature. --- American poetry --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace --- Criticism and interpretation --- Plath, Sylvia --- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, Jr. --- Bishop, Elizabeth --- Merrill, James Ingram --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Death in literature --- Adjective. --- After Apple-Picking. --- Allusion. --- Amputation. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Asymmetry. --- Because I could not stop for Death. --- Bevel. --- Binocular vision. --- Bluebeard's Castle. --- Burial. --- Calcium carbonate. --- Carbon monoxide. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Coffin. --- Couplet. --- Death and Life. --- Death drive. --- Death. --- Deathbed. --- Desiccation. --- Diction. --- Disjecta membra. --- Dramatis Personae. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Emblem. --- Emily Dickinson. --- Emptiness. --- Executive director. --- Ezra Pound. --- Fairy tale. --- Fine art. --- Grandparent. --- Hexameter. --- Human extinction. --- Impermanence. --- In Death. --- In the Flesh (TV series). --- Incineration. --- Irony. --- James Merrill. --- John Donne. --- John Keats. --- Lady Lazarus. --- Lament. --- Last Poems. --- Lecture. --- Life Studies. --- Lycidas. --- Macabre. --- Melodrama. --- Metaphor. --- Microtome. --- Misery (novel). --- Mourning. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- National Gallery of Art. --- National Humanities Center. --- Ottava rima. --- Otto Plath. --- Pentameter. --- Phone sex. --- Pity. --- Plath. --- Platitude. --- Poetry. --- Princeton University Press. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rhyme scheme. --- Rhyme. --- Rigor mortis. --- Robert Lowell. --- Sadness. --- Sestet. --- She Died. --- Skirt. --- Slowness (novel). --- Soliloquy. --- Sonnet. --- Stanza. --- Subtraction. --- Suffering. --- Suicide attempt. --- Sylvia Plath. --- Ted Hughes. --- Tercet. --- Terza rima. --- The Other Hand. --- The Snapper (novel). --- Trepanning. --- Tyvek. --- Villanelle. --- Vocation (poem). --- W. B. Yeats. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Wasting. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.