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Authors:Zwicker S. Pages: 99 - 115 Abstract: Did John Dryden imagine that he was living, that he was conducting, a literary life' Given forty years of nearly continuous (indeed, pretty much non-stop) literary production, a more pertinent question might be, how could he not have so imagined his life' And we can ask further, when did Dryden begin to imagine this literary life, and in whose company did he imagine it, and by what means and models did he indulge in such imagining' PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfx041 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Crane J. Pages: 116 - 130 Abstract: Loneliness is in some ways an odd quality to claim for John Betjeman. When he died in May 1984 he was a much-loved public figure, a laureate whose famous appearance, both dapper and shabby, was evocative of his age, and denoted the warmth and charm of a recognisable personality. His television appearances had ensured for him recognition by a wide public, and his poems were recognised and enjoyed by those who were not habitual readers of poetry. The success of his Collected Poems, published by John Murray in 1958, gained further éclat from being compared with the similar furore produced by the publication of Byron, also by John Murray, over a hundred years before. Thirty-odd years after his death his work seems of renewed importance. Both the notion of Englishness he so cherished and the landscape and architecture he so vehemently worked to protect have become once again a vital matter, far from merely nostalgic, in renewed agitation about preservation of heritage and a renewed debate about ‘Englishness’. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy010 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Baker R. Pages: 131 - 154 Abstract: The idea of confessional poetry has perhaps lost specificity, given that so much poetry in our time is at least quasi-confessional, but Louise Glück is surely a confessional poet in some basic sense. She returns time and again to a series of wounding predicaments in her intimate life: the sorrows of family (the family of her childhood as well as the family of her adulthood), the costs of a longing for independence lived primarily as a stance of opposition, or the tension between a longing for independence and a longing for relationship, and an intuition that the core of human experience is loss, grief, and death. ‘Tonight’, she says in a poem in Ararat, ‘I saw myself in the dark window as / the image of my father, whose life / was spent like this, / thinking of death to the exclusion / of other sensual matters’ (p. 63).11 She has been writing about the shadow of her approaching death nearly all her adult life. The voice in which she expresses her wounds is at once spare, speculative, and confident. If the risk of a confessional poet is self-absorption, Glück has several resources for overcoming this risk, including an ironic intelligence, a sense of humour, a capacious speculative imagination, and a habit of weaving the sorrows of contemporary life through the archetypes of classical and biblical literature. She lends to each of her books from Ararat on, further, the shape of a larger sequence or story. She has spoken of her preference for paradigm over circumstance,22 and her poems do tend to be vertical, but the books lend scope to the poems. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy011 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Neild R. Pages: 155 - 167 Abstract: If, as is intended by the current Conservative government, Brexit leads Britain to seek a trade treaty with the United States, will our oft-claimed ‘special relationship’ with that country make it generous to us in negotiation, or will it behave normally and pursue its national interest without inhibition' This examination of the origins of the special relationship indicates that, from the start, it has been a relationship that is more servile than influential. There appear to be no grounds for expecting generosity.11 PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy001 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Simonova N. Pages: 186 - 190 Abstract: The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by WilliamsAbigail. Yale University Press, 2017. £30. ISBN 9 7803 0020 8290 PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy005 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:Wilson R. Pages: 191 - 194 Abstract: Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays by CallaghanMadeleine. Liverpool University Press, 2017. £75. ISBN 9 7817 8694 0247 PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfx034 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Authors:van Loon A. Pages: 194 - 200 Abstract: Umberto Eco, the Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture by MerrellDouglass. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. £52.99. ISBN 9 7833 1954 7893 PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfx037 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
Pages: 201 - 204 Abstract: Robert Baker is the author of The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (2005) and In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen (2012), and the translator of René Char’s The Word as Archipelago (2012). He is Professor of English at the University of Montana. PubDate: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/camqtly/bfy014 Issue No:Vol. 47, No. 2 (2018)
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