Colleagues,
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce a new volume in its Praxis series,
*Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry
and Poetics,* edited by Lisa Steinman. You can access it directly at:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/poetics/
In this collection, three divergent critics--representing Romanticism,
contemporary poetry, and formal concerns, such as prosody and rhythm, for
example--present analyses of five contemporary poets viewed in relationship to
several different strains of Romantic practice or theory. Charles Altieri
reflects on Wordsworth, Arnold, Williams and the contemporary poetry of Lyn
Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino; Robert Kaufman discusses the problematics of
Romantic difficulty from Kant through Benjamin, Adorno, and the Frankfurt
School, to the work of Barbara Guest and Michael Palmer; and Ellen Stauder
explores how Mark Doty, through his use of description and affect, construes
and reconstructs the poetry of Keats.
All three essays make creative conjectures as to what Romanticism looks like
right now to actively producing poets, as well as what constitutes the most
compelling contemporary poetic practices. Romantic poetry, these essays show,
has in one way or another set the agenda for contemporary poetics, bequeathing
multiple and conflicting legacies to twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry.
Steve Jones
Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu
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