Books written by Seamus Perry

Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays

... Light among the vanished ages; star that gildest yet this phantom shore; Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more; See R 394 headnote, citing J. B. Trapp's reproduction of the MS (TLS, 18 Sept.
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations

Although in his radical poetry of this period, Coleridge's exemplar of the most egregious despot, ... Leask claims that Coleridge is indirectly satirizing George III's government for constructing a sublime of terror to enforce political ...
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations

Fang, Karen (2010), Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Fay, Elizabeth (2010), 'Hallucinogesis: Thomas De Quincey's Mind Trips', ...
T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland

In this book, the Oxford scholar Seamus Perry points out some of the fruits of that acute historical awareness – and shares his own admiration of, and pleasure in, the extraordinary voicings and counter-voicings of this perpetually great ...
Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character and Other Essays on Victorian Literature

Trollope's Later Novels, P. D. Edwards's Anthony Trollope: His Art and Scope and Juliet McMaster's Trollope's Palliser ... titles built round the connective 'and': Trollope and His Illustrators, Trollope and the Law, Trollope and Women, ...
Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays

Soon after the above lines, Eliot comes into contact with 'The eyes of a familiar compound ghost \ Both intimate and unidentifiable'. With Eliot's earlier comments about Tennyson's fine ear and respect for the English language in mind, ...
Alfred Tennyson

In this study, Seamus Perry returns to the extraordinary language of Tennyson's verse, and finds in the intricacies of his greatest poetry, not an evasion of responsibilities, but rather the memorably intricate expression of hesitancies and ...
Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection

Darwin , Erasmus 3 , 6 , 10 , 67 , 89 , 134 , 137 , 141 , 204 day - dreams 24 , 87 , 170 , 219 Demiurge 116 Dennis , John 99 ... 79 , 100 dreams 6 , 27–8 , 45 , 49 , 52 , 66 , 68 , 76 , III , 122 , 126 , 148 , 247 ; see also daydreams ...
Coleridge and the Uses of Division

Throughout, close attention is paid to Coleridge the writer, the metaphor-maker and stylist, exhibited across the wide range of his oeuvre, in public and private works, prose and poetry.
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations

... The Collected Works ofSamuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. 11. Princeton: Princeton University Press. — (1999), Poems. Ed ... London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Ellis, Henry (1817), Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Bibliography 210.
1800: The New Lyrical Ballads

Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), this collection gathers essays from ten leading British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of...