Academic Articles
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Open Shakespeare Project
A Short Introduction to Venus and Adonis
A Short Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece
A Short Introduction to The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A Short Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece
A Short Introduction to The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cambridge Authors
Responding to Wordsworth: A Critical History
Herbert, Donne and the Cunning Use of Language
Available on the Cambridge Authors website, managed by the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge.
Herbert, Donne and the Cunning Use of Language
Available on the Cambridge Authors website, managed by the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge.
Lost in Paris
One of many articles about three of my loves - Paris, modernism and female writers. Full text available on request.
Woolf and wandering
A 3000 word dissertation submitted as part of my BA degree. Full text available on request.
“Hers it was, rather, to run and hurry and ponder on long solitary walks, climbing gates, stepping through the mud, and through the blur, the dream, the ecstasy of loneliness.” ('Mrs Dalloway’s Party')
“To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.” (Woolf’s Diary)
“Hers it was, rather, to run and hurry and ponder on long solitary walks, climbing gates, stepping through the mud, and through the blur, the dream, the ecstasy of loneliness.” ('Mrs Dalloway’s Party')
“To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.” (Woolf’s Diary)
Wordsworth and "Nature's favourite": The daisy poems of 1802
A 3000 word dissertation submitted as part of my degree. Full text available on request.
Synopsis
This dissertation begins with the assumption that the underappreciated lyrics written in the elegiac spring of 1802 are valuable in themselves, and not only because they can help illuminate or provide a commentary on the later, longer works.
Centring around the three daisy poems written in 1802 and published in the 1907 Poems, in Two Volumes, it rejects the typical critical stance which either bypasses the poems altogether, or reads them as a means of “negotiating passage” (William H Galperin). Close readings of the three poems in their original and revised forms are combined with interrogation of the rich personal writings available by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Dorothy.
The study concludes by recognising the presence of many of Wordsworth’s grand poetic themes - melancholy, social and aesthetic egalitarianism, utopian vision, religious confusion and “natural piety”- in these poems, which are often considered too trite or shallow to warrant critical enquiry.
Synopsis
This dissertation begins with the assumption that the underappreciated lyrics written in the elegiac spring of 1802 are valuable in themselves, and not only because they can help illuminate or provide a commentary on the later, longer works.
Centring around the three daisy poems written in 1802 and published in the 1907 Poems, in Two Volumes, it rejects the typical critical stance which either bypasses the poems altogether, or reads them as a means of “negotiating passage” (William H Galperin). Close readings of the three poems in their original and revised forms are combined with interrogation of the rich personal writings available by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Dorothy.
The study concludes by recognising the presence of many of Wordsworth’s grand poetic themes - melancholy, social and aesthetic egalitarianism, utopian vision, religious confusion and “natural piety”- in these poems, which are often considered too trite or shallow to warrant critical enquiry.
