Edited by Antony H. Harrison (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets–not just one of the major women poets—of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti’s work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions … Continued
By George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Quoting copiously from the Script, Harper has traced in two volumes these incredible experiments day by day as the Yeatses moved about England, Ireland, and America. He has also cited hundreds of parallel explanatory passages from many workbooks, notebooks, and the concordance arranged like a card index in … Continued
By Deborah McGrady (NHC Fellow, 2010–11)
By Janet Beizer (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers awaken maternal phantoms that must be embraced or confronted. Do women writing in … Continued
By W. B. YeatsEdited by George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) A three-volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "automatic writing" of W.B.Yeats. This material, which spans the years between 1917 and 1920, contains Yeats' thoughts concerning literature and art, which in turn, comprises his "vision".
By W. B. YeatsEdited by George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
By W. B. YeatsEdited by George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
By Mark Turner (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and Francis-Noël Thomas For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. … Continued
By Fiona Somerset (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) "Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the … Continued
By Kathryn Burns (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trained to cast other people’s words in official forms and make them legally true. Thus the first thing Columbus did on American shores in … Continued