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Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.

Lyric poetry. --- Poetry --- Appreciation. --- Wordsworth, William, --- John Keats. --- Lucille Clifton. --- Percy Bysshe Shelley. --- William Wordsworth. --- figure. --- poetry. --- romanticism. --- trope. --- untimeliness.

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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.

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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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The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cultural influence.Bryant's letters lf the years between show the versatility of his concern with the crucial political, social, artistic, and literary movements of his time, and the varied friendships he enjoyed despite his preoccupation with a controversial daily paper, and with the sustenance of a poetic reputation yet unequaled among Americans. As president of the New York Homeopathic Society, in letters and editorials urging widespread public parks, and in his presidency of the New York Society for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, he gave attention to public health, recreation, and order. He urged the rights of labor, foreign and religious minorities, and free African Americans; his most powerful political effort of the period was in opposition to the spread of slavery through the conquest of Mexico. An early commitment to free trade in material goods was maintained in letters and editorials, and to that in ideas by his presidency of the American Copyright Club and his support of the efforts of Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau to secure from the United States Congress and international copyright agreement.Bryant's first visit to Great Britain came at the height of his poetic and journalistic fame in 1845, bringing him into cordial intimacy with members of Parliament, scientists, journalists, artists, and writers. In detailed letters to his wife, published here for the first time, he describes the pleasures he took in breakfasting with the literary patron Samuel Rogers and the American minister Edward Everett, boating on the Thames with artists and with diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, spending an evening in the home of Leigh Hunt, and calling on the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount as well as in the distinctions paid him at a rally of the Anti-Corn-Law League in Covent Garden Theatre, and at the annual meeting in Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.Equally fresh are most of the letters to prominent Americans, many of them his close friends, such as the two Danas, Bancroft, Cole, Cooper, Dewey, Dix, Downing, Durand, Forrest, Greenough, Irving, Longfellow, Simms, Tilden, Van Buren, and Weir. His letters to the Evening Post recounting his observations and experiences during travels abroad and in the South, West, and Northeast of the United States, which were copied widely in other newspapers and praised highly by many of their subscribers, are here made available to the present-day reader.

American Copyright Club. --- Charles Dickens. --- Edward Everett. --- Harriet Martineau. --- Henry Crabb Robinson. --- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. --- James Fenimore Cooper. --- John Bigelow. --- Leigh Hunt. --- Letters. --- New York Evening Post. --- New York Homeopathic Society. --- New York Society for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death. --- Samuel Rogers. --- Washington Irving. --- William Cullen Bryant. --- William Leggett. --- William Wordsworth. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. --- Briefsammlung --- Poets, American. --- Poets, American --- Bryant, William C. --- Bryant, William Cullen, --- Correspondance. --- American poets

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"What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers-sometimes accurate, sometimes not-were tantalizingly at the ready for Romantic-era readers. Confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But how close was too close? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity-a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability-could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert argues that these questions influenced literary production in the Romantic period. Uniting reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the line between telling all and telling all too much"--

Books and reading --- Fame --- Authors and readers --- Romanticism --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Lady Caroline Lamb, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Byron, romanticism, book history, reception studies, romantic celebrity, nineteenth-century print culture, oversharing, fan mail, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Percy Bysshe Shelley. --- Romantisme --- Relations écrivains-lecteurs --- Renommée --- Livres et lecture --- Aspect socio-culturel