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The subject of sacrifice in John Wilkinson's down to earth
(2014-01-02)
This article discusses John Wilkinson's volume Down to Earth (2008), and in particular the use of the trope of sacrifice in that book's examination of the violence inherent in capitalism. Making a comparison with Wilkinson's ...
From grief to leisure: "Lycidas" in the eighteenth century
(2016-03-01)
© 2016 by University of Washington. Milton's elegy for Edward King was widely admired and imitated in the eighteenth century. These imitations tend to celebrate the poem as an ornamental, musical work while suppressing its ...
Hubbub and satire
(2016-02-01)
Hanging in the air
(2021-01-01)
Accepted for publication by Critical Inquiry on Winter 2021.
COUNTRY CHURCH MONUMENTS
(2023)
Elegy: Love and Death
(Oxford University Press, 2022-04-29)
Radical Tenderness: Poetry in Times of Catastrophe
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-05-01)
Radical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. How do poets negotiate between the personal and the ...