Auden’s political thinking was rooted in the turbulent times of the 1930s.He chose to stand with the proletariat and paid attention to social realities.Marxism helped him better understand the background and causes o...
Critics tend to cast a suspicious eye on Derek Mahon’s seemingly obsessive revisions of his works.Though it needs to be acknowledged that Mahon’s habitual practice of revision does not always lead to a definite impr...
Algernon Charles Swinburne’s late poems encouraging Britain’s aggression against the Boer States are exercises in imperialist jingoism,and seem at odds with the poet's longstanding Republicanism and advocacy of indi...
With an eye to the workings of collage-in particular its prophetic temporality-I explore the collage practice of the Australian poet Bella Li,with a focus on her second book,Lost Lake(2018).Taking my cue from movement...
Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modem universal language preoccupied many European writers,artists and philosophers throughout the interand postwar years.This article looks at a peculiar ov...
This essay has two strands.It examines Simone White’s writing on U.S.Trap in Dear Angel of Death(2017),bringing in questions of gender and of the history of writings of“The Music,”in dialogue with thinkers such as ...
A peculiar term appears in five Old English poems.The term is“reordberend,”which translates to“speech-bearers”in modern English.The reordberend are described in Dream of the Rood,Daniel,Andreas,the Christ poems,an...
Scripting what may be read as a“string figure”companion to Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene,Jen Bervin’s 2017 Silk Poems project becomes entangled with the damage of the Anthropocene—and with projects of recuperation ...
Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English,University of North Bengal.He is the author and editor of numerous books which include The Plastic Turn(Cornell UP,forthcoming),Poetry and Philosophy:Continental Persp...
“Yeux Glauques,”the sixth poem of Ezra Pound’s 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,has been read as an indictment of Victorian viewers’and readers’rejection of Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry,a rejection proleptic of Georgi...