Reading Romantic Poetry

تفكيك الآخر أو تمكين العنصرية: إعادة النظر في الفتى الأسود الصغير لويليام بليك

“…Race evolved from an ad hoc system of ascribed characteristics into a set of biological ingredients to establish a hierarchical social structure and classify all of humanity, with Africans as the foundation for this endeavor. Even the adamant opponent of slavery, Thomas Clarkson, could not resist granting Europeans preferential treatment in this purportedly civilized order (Stafford, 2012).…”

“Materials for Imagination”: Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry After 1822

“…My emphasis is on the stealthy, feline links between Hemans's work and Shelley's; affinity, influence and intertextuality compose an intricate net. "How oft we seem / Like those that dream, and know the while they dream" might, for instance, bring to mind the Shelley for whom "all things seem, / And we the shadows of the dream" (Conclusion, [11][12] Hemans has given an individualizing twist to the difficult partnership between seeming and dreaming. Her speaker appeals to the idea of knowledge amidst "dream", a knowledge less ratiocinative than made up of intimation and foreboding, that state which in "The Spirit's…”

“…12 As in some Dantescan love-poem, Byron acts as the screen figure in this lyric, which appears to be directed to him, given the title with its allusion to a famous stanza (xiv) from Beppo. Wolfson discovers "sly wit" and subversive intent (at Byron's expense), reading the poem as asserting that "England's new constellation of poets can survive the loss of its most famous exile".…”