Bibliographies

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(bibliographies are added as the term proceeds)

Influence	Wordsworth and Coleridge	Byron and Shelley	Wordsworth and Keats
Dorothy Wordsworth	Tennyson	Browning	Arnold
Thoreau & American Romanticism	Yeats	Stevens

Influence

Bate, Walter Jackson. The burden of the past and the English poet. 1970. PR99.B19.

Bloom, Harold. The ringers in the tower: studies in romantic tradition. 1971. PR447.B6.

-----. Poetry and repression: revisionism from Blake to Stevens. 1976. PR457.B48.

Clayton, Jay, and Eric Rothstein, eds. Influence and intertextuality in literary history. 1991. PR21.I5 1991.

Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. 1979. PR115.G5.

Lentricchia, Frank, and Thomas McLaughlin, eds. Critical terms for literary study. 1990. PN81.C84 1990.

Ashton, Rosemary. The life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a critical biography. 1996. PR4483.A85 1996

Curtis, Jared. Wordsworth's experiments with tradition: the lyric poems of 1802. 1971. PR5888.C8.

Dekker, George. Coleridge and the literature of sensibility. 1978. PR4480.D43D4.

Hall, Spencer, ed. Approaches to teaching Wordsworth's poetry. 1986. PR5888.A66 1986.

Johnston, Kenneth. The hidden Wordsworth: poet, lover, rebel, spy. 1998. PR5882 .J65 1998

Kearns, Sheila. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and romantic autobiography: reading strategies of self-representation. 1995. PR4476.K43 1995

Magnuson, Paul. Coleridge and Wordsworth: a lyrical dialogue. 1988. PR4484.M28 1988. (copy of ch. 5 on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "My genial spirits . . . ")

Matlak, Richard. The poetry of relationship: the Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800. 1997. PR5883.M34 1997.

-----, ed. Approaches to teaching Coleridge's poetry and prose. 1991. PR4487.S78A66 1991.

McFarland, Thomas. Romanticism and the forms of ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and modalities of fragmentation. 1981. PR590.M25 1981.

Newlyn, Lucy. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the language of allusion. 1986. PR589.A44N4 1986. (copy of ch. 2 on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "Collaboration . . . ")

ONeill, Michael. "Wedded to verse: Wordsworth and Coleridge." Wordsworth Circle 29 (1998), 98-106. (not on reserve)

Parrish, Stephen, ed. Coleridge's dejection: the earliest manuscripts and the earliest printings. 1988. PR4480.D4 1988. (copy of the letter version on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "A Letter to . . . ")

Prickett, Stephen. Coleridge and Wordsworth: the poetry of growth. 1970. PR4484.P7 1970.

Robinson, Jeffrey. Radical literary education: a classroom experiment with Wordsworth's Ode. 1987. PR5860.R6 1987.

Ruoff, Gene. Wordsworth and Coleridge: the making of the major lyrics, 1802-1804. 1989. PR5888.R86 1989.

Wordsworth, Jonathan. William Wordsworth: the borders of vision. 1982. PR5888W65 1984.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage" (selections). Copy on reserve.

Curran, Stuart. Shelley’s annus mirabilis: the maturing of an epic vision. 1975. PR5438.C8.

Hirsch, Bernard. "‘A Want of That True Theory’: Julian and Maddalo as Dramatic Monologue." Studies in Romanticism 17 (1978), 13-34. (copy on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Levinson, Marjorie. The Romantic fragment poem: a critique of a form. 1986. PR590.L43 1986.

Reiman, Donald, and Sharon Powers, eds. Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. 1977. PR5403.R4. (copy of text of "Julian and Maddalo" on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Richardson, Alan. A mental theater: poetic drama and consciousness in the romantic age. 1988. PR719.V4R53 1988.

Robinson, Charles. Shelley and Byron, the snake and eagle wreathed in fight. 1977. PR5403.R4. (copy of ch. 2 on reserve, as "With the world . . . ")

Shilstone, Frederick, ed. Approaches to teaching Byron’s poetry. 1991. PR4388.A6 1991. (copies of essays by Mark Kipperman ["Julian, Maddalo . . . "] and Bernard Hirsch ["Byron’s Poetic Journal . . . "] on reserve; also Hirsch is on electronic reserve)

Sperry, Stuart. "Byron and the Meaning of Manfred." Criticism 16 (1974), 189-202. AS30.C7. [not on reserve]

Ware, Tracy. "Problems of Interpretation and Humanism in ‘Julian and Maddalo.’" Philological Quarterly 66 (1987), 109-25. P1.P55. [not on reserve]

Chandler, James. England in 1819: the politics of literary culture and the case of romantic historicism. 1998. PR457.C39 1998.

Dickstein, Morris. Keats and his poetry: a study in development. 1971. PR4837.D5. (copy of the section on the Odes on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "Fierce dispute . . . ")

Evert, Walter, and Jack Rhodes, eds. Approaches to teaching Keats’s poetry. 1991. PR4837.A64 1991. (copy of essay by Lore Metzger on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "Keats’s Politics of Truth")

Johnston, Kenneth, and Gene Ruoff, eds. The age of William Wordsworth: critical essays on the romantic tradition. 1987. PR5892.R63A34 1987.

-----. The complete poems. Ed. Miriam Allott. 1970. [personal copy on reserve]

-----. The letters of John Keats, 1814-1821. 2 vols. Ed. H. E. Rollins. 1958. PR4836.A57 v.1, v.2.

Manning, Peter. "Keats’s and Wordsworth’s Nightingales." English language notes 17 (1980), 189-91. PE1.E53. [not on reserve]

O’Rourke, James. Keats’s odes and contemporary criticism. 1998. PR4837 .O75 1998.

Sperry, Stuart. Keats the poet. 1973. PR4837.S57. (copy of section on the Odes on reserve; also on electronic reserve as "Romantic irony . . .")

Stillinger, Jack. The hoodwinking of Madeline, and other essays on Keats’s poems. 1971. PR4837.S64.

Wolfson, Susan. The questioning presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the interrogative mode in romantic poetry. 1986. PR4837.W65 1986. (copy of section on "Ode to a Nightingale" on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Benstock, Shari, ed. The Private self: theory and practice of women’s autobiographical writing. 1988. PR756.A9P75 1988.

Bialostosky, Don. Wordsworth, dialogics, and the practice of criticism. 1992. PR5892.L5B5 1992.

Fay, Elizabeth. Becoming Wordsworthian: a performative aesthetics. 1995. PR5892.A34F39 1995.

Fisch, Audrey, Anne Mellor, and Esther Schor. The Other Mary Shelley: beyond Frankenstein. 1993. PR5398.O87 1993.

Grob, Alan. "William and Dorothy: A Case Study in the Hermeneutics of Disparagement." ELH 65:1 (1998): 187-221. PR1.E5. (Also available online, via the link to ELH in Falvey’s online catalog [VUCat].)

Homans, Margaret. Bearing the word: language and female experience in nineteenth-century women’s writing. 1986. PR469.W65H66 1986.

-----. Women writers and poetic identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson. 1980. PR589.W6H6 1980.

* Johnston, Kenneth, and Gene Ruoff, eds. The age of William Wordsworth: critical essays on the romantic tradition. 1987. PR5892.R63A34 1987.

Levin, Susan. Dorothy Wordsworth & romanticism. 1987. PR5849.L48 1987. (copies of texts of poems, and discussions of poems, on reserve; also on electronic reserve, as "Selected Readings . . . " [texts] and "Dorothy Wordsworth . . ." [discussions])

Ross, Marlon. The contours of masculine desire: romanticism and the rise of women’s poetry. 1989. PN603.R67 1989.

-----. "Naturalizing Gender: Woman’s Place in Wordsworth’s Ideological Landscape." ELH 53 (1986), 391-410. PR1.E5. [not on reserve]

-----. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt. 1959. PR5849.A8 v.1, v. 2.

Beer, John. Romantic influences: contemporary, Victorian, modern. 1993. PR451.B44 1993.

Blank, G. Kim and Margot Louis, eds. Influence and resistance in nineteenth-century English poetry. 1993. PR581.I54 1993.

* Bloom, Harold. Poetry and repression: revisionism from Blake to Stevens. 1976. PR457.B48.

Christ, Carol. Victorian and modern poetics. 1984. PS324.C47 1984. (copy of first two chapters on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

-----. The finer optic: the aesthetic of particularity in Victorian poetry. 1975. PR595.P33C5 1975.

Goldberg, Brian. "‘A Sea Reflecting Love’: Tennyson, Shelley, and the Aesthetics of the Image in the Marketplace." Modern Language Quarterly 59 (1998), 71-97. PB1 .M64.

Gray, Erik. "‘Out of Me, Out of Me!’: Andrea, Ulysses, and Victorian Revisions of Egotistical Lyric." Victorian Poetry 36 (1998), 417-30. PR500.V5.

Griffiths, Eric. "Tennyson’s Idle Tears." (copy on reserve from Collins, Philip, ed. Tennyson: Seven Essays, 1992)

Harrison, Antony. Victorian poets and romantic poems: intertextuality and ideology. 1990. PR595.R6H37 1990.

Houghton, Walter, and Robert Stange, eds. Victorian poetry and poetics. 1959. PR1223.H6.

Knoepflmacher, U. C., and G. B. Tennyson, eds. Nature and the Victorian imagination. 1977. BH221.G73N37.

Kramer, Lawrence. "The ‘Intimations’ Ode and Victorian Romanticism." Victorian poetry 18 (1980), 315-35. PR500.V5.

Lourie, Margaret. "Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep: Tennyson as Romantic Revisionist." Studies in romanticism 18 (1979), 3-27. PN603.S7.

McSweeney, Kerry. Tennyson and Swinburne as romantic naturalists. 1981. PR5581.M29.

-----. "Performing ‘The Solitary Reaper’ and ‘Tears, Idle Tears’." Criticism 38 (1996), 281-302. AS30.C7.

Mermin, Dorothy. The audience in the poem: five Victorian poets. 1983. PR599.M6M47 1983. (copy of introduction on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Morgan, Thais, ed. Wordsworth Among the Victorian Poets. Special issue of Victorian poetry: 24 (1986), 353-469. PR500.V5.

Peltason, Timothy. "Tennyson, Nature, and Romantic Nature Poetry." Philological quarterly 63 (1984), 75-93. P1.P55.

Rowlinson, Matthew. Tennyson’s fixations: psychoanalysis and the topics of the early poetry. 1994. PR5592.R68 1994.

Starzyk, Lawrence. The dialogue of the mind with itself: early Victorian poetry and poetics. 1992. PR591.S73 1992.

Tennyson, Alfred. The poems of Tennyson. Ed. Christopher Ricks. 2nd ed. 1987. PR5550.F87 1987 v.1, v.2.

Tucker, Herbert. Tennyson and the doom of romanticism. 1988. PR5592.R63T83 1988. (copy of sections on "Mariana" and "Tears Idle Tears" on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Browning

* Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian poetry: poetry, poetics, and politics. 1993. PR595.H5A76 1993.

-----, ed. Robert Browning. Writers and their backgrounds. 1975. PR4238.R6 1975.

Bidney, Martin. "The Exploration of Keatsian Aesthetic Problems in Browning’s ‘Madhouse Cells.’" Studies in English Literature 24 (1984), 671-81. PR1.S82.

* Bloom, Harold. The ringers in the tower: studies in romantic tradition. 1971. PR447.B6.

* -----. Poetry and repression: revisionism from Blake to Stevens. 1976. PR457.B48.

Browning, Robert. The complete works of Robert Browning. 1969-. PR4201.K5 v.5.

* -----. The finer optic: the aesthetic of particularity in Victorian poetry. 1975. PR595.P33C5 1975.

Colville, Derek. Victorian poetry and the romantic religion. 1970. (short excerpt on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Gray, Erik. "‘Out of Me, Out of Me!’: Andrea, Ulysses, and Victorian Revisions of Egotistical Lyric." Victorian Poetry 36 (1998), 417-30. PR500.V5.

* Harrison, Antony H. Victorian poets and romantic poems: intertextuality and ideology. 1990. PR595.R6H37 1990.

Hawlin, Stefan. "Browning, Shelley, and ‘On Worming Dogs.’" Essays in Criticism 40 (1990), 136-55. PN80.E7.

Knoepflmacher, U. C. "Projection and the Female Other: Romanticism, Browning, and the Victorian Dramatic Monologue." Victorian poetry 22 (1984), 139-59. PR500.V5.

* -----, and G. B. Tennyson, eds. Nature and the Victorian imagination. 1977. BH221.G73N37.

* Kramer, Lawrence. "The ‘Intimations’ Ode and Victorian Romanticism." Victorian poetry 18 (1980), 315-35. PR500.V5.

Langbaum, Robert. The poetry of experience: the dramatic monologue in modern literary tradition. 1957. PR509.M6L3.

* Mermin, Dorothy. The audience in the poem: five Victorian poets. 1983. PR599.M6M47 1983.

* Morgan, Thais, ed. Wordsworth Among the Victorian Poets. Special issue of Victorian poetry: 24 (1986), 353-469. PR500.V5.

* Starzyk, Lawrence. The dialogue of the mind with itself: early Victorian poetry and poetics. 1992. PR591.S73 1992.

Arnold, Matthew. Complete prose works. Ed. R. H. Super. 1960- . Vol. 9: English Literature and Irish Politics. PR4021.S8 v.9.

* Blank, G. Kim and Margot Louis, eds. Influence and resistance in nineteenth-century English poetry. 1993. PR581.I54 1993.

Culler, A. Dwight. Imaginative reason: the poetry of Matthew Arnold. 1966. PR4024.C8.

DeLaura, David, ed. Matthew Arnold: a collection of critical essays. 1973. PR4024.D4.

Harrison, Antony. Victorian poets and the politics of culture: discourse and ideology. 1998. PR595.H5 H37 1998.

Hill, James L. "The Frame for the Mind: Landscape in ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,’ ‘Dover Beach,’ and ‘Sunday Morning.’" The Centennial review 18 (1974), 29-48. AP2.C35.

James, D. G. Matthew Arnold and the decline of English romanticism. 1961. PR4024.J25.

Knoepflmacher, U. C. "Dover Revisited: The Wordsworthian Matrix in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold." Victorian Poetry 1 (1963), 17-26. (issue not in library; copy on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

* ----- and G. B. Tennyson, eds. Nature and the Victorian imagination. 1977. BH221.G73N37.

* Kramer, Lawrence. "The ‘Intimations’ Ode and Victorian Romanticism." Victorian poetry 18 (1980), 315-35. PR500.V5.

* Mermin, Dorothy. The audience in the poem: five Victorian poets. 1983. PR599.M6M47 1983.

* Morgan, Thais, ed. Wordsworth Among the Victorian Poets. Special issue of Victorian poetry: 24 (1986), 353-469. PR500.V5.

Riede, David. Matthew Arnold and the betrayal of language. 1988. PR4024.R5 1988.

Starzyk, Lawrence. The dialogue of the mind with itself: early Victorian poetry and poetics. 1992. PR591.S73 1992.

-----. "If mine had been the painter’s hand": the indeterminate in nineteenth-century poetry and painting. 1999. PR585.A78 S73 1999.

Timko, Michael. "Wordsworth’s ‘Ode’ and Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’: Celestial Language and Confused Alarms." Cithara 13 (1973), 53-63. B1.C5.

Trickett, Rachel. "Wordsworth and Arnold." Wordsworth Circle 20 (1989), 50-56. PR5879.W6.

Ulmer, William. "The Human Seasons: Arnold, Keats, and ‘The Scholar-Gipsy.’" Victorian Poetry 22 (1984), 247-61. PR500.V5.

Buell, Lawrence. Literary transcendentalism, style and vision in the American Renaissance. 1973. PS217.T7B8.

-----. New England literary culture from revolution through renaissance. 1986. PS243.B84 1986.

Chai, Leon. The romantic foundations of the American renaissance. 1987. PS217.R6C43 1987.

Gravil, Richard. Romantic dialogues: Anglo-American continuities, 1776-1862. 2000. PS159.E5 G73 2000.

Hertz, Robert. "English and American Romanticism." Personalist 46 (1965), 81-92. AP2.P46.

McIntosh, James. Thoreau as romantic naturalist; his shifting stance toward nature. 1974. PS3057.N3M3 1974.

Miller, Perry. "Thoreau in the Context of International Romanticism." The New England quarterly 34 (1961), 147-59. F1.N62.

Moldenhauer, Joseph. "Walden and Wordsworth’s Guide to the English Lake District." Studies in the American renaissance, 1990. Ed. Joel Myerson. 261-92. PS201.S7.

Schneider, Richard, ed. Approaches to teaching Thoreau’s Walden and other works. 1996. PS3054.A63 1996. (copy of essay by Frederick Garber on reserve; also on electronic reserve)

Smith, Lorrie. "‘Walking’ from England to America: Re-viewing Thoreau’s Romanticism." The New England quarterly 58 (1985), 221-41. F1.N62.

Tanner, Tony. "Notes for a Comparison between American and European Romanticism." Journal of American studies 2 (1968), 83-103. E151.J6. (Rpt. in Scenes of nature, signs of men. 1987. PS201.T28 1987.)

Weisbuch, Robert. Atlantic double-cross: American literature and British influence in the Age of Emerson. 1986. PS159.E5W4 1986.

Adams, Hazard. Antithetical essays in literary criticism and liberal education. 1990. PR99.A18 1990.

Baker, Carlos. The echoing green: romanticism, modernism, and the phenomena of transference in poetry. 1984. PS310.R66B34 1984.

-----. Transformations of romanticism in Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. 1976. (Not at Falvey; copy on reserve as "Last Romanticism . . . ")

-----, ed. Romantic and modern: revaluations of literary tradition. 1977. PS121.R6.

Eggenschwiler, David. "Nightingales and Byzantine Birds, Something Less Than Kind." English language notes 8 (1971), 186-91. PE1.E53.

Hall, Spencer, ed. Approaches to teaching Shelley’s poetry. 1990. PR5438.A66 1990.

Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations: selected prose, 1968-1978. 1980. PR6058.E2P7 1980.

Ingersoll, Earl. "Yeats’s ‘Quarrel’ with Keats: History and Art in Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and Yeats’s ‘Lapis Lazuli.’" Yeats Eliot review 10 (1989), 57-60. PS3509.L43Z96.

Jones, James Land. Adam’s dream: mythic consciousness in Keats and Yeats. 1975. PR4837.J64.

Keane, Patrick. "Revolutions French and Russian: Burke, Wordsworth, and the Genesis of Yeats’s 'The Second Coming.’" In Yeats’s Interactions with Tradition. 1987. (Not at Falvey: copy on reserve.)

Potts, Abbie Findlay. The elegiac mode: poetic form in Wordsworth and other elegists. 1967. PR508.E5P6.

Ragussis, Michael. The subterfuge of art: language and the romantic tradition. 1978. PR408.P8R3.

Ruoff, Gene, ed. The Romantics and us: essays on literature and culture. 1990. PR457.R647 1990.

Thompson, William. "Collapsed Universes and Structured Poems: An Essay in Whiteheadian Criticism." College English 28 (1966), 25-39. PE1.C6.

Vlasopolos, Anca. The symbolic method of Coleridge, Baudelaire, and Yeats. 1983. PR585.S9V55 1983.