Notes that the minor Romantic poet John Clare commands increasing attention at academic conferences, in essay collections, and on college syllabi. Argues the practices that have kept Clare in view have also rendered him partially inaccessible to students, scholars and general readers. Suggests readers are now in possession of the materials with…

The function of fiction is to entertain, not to analyze philosophical, political, or psychological concepts and attitudes. (DD)

Describes an approach which involves acknowledging what in Milton's poetry is alien to contemporary students; introducing students to Milton's culture, theology, myths, and aesthetics; and making connections between Milton and students. (DD)

Analyses of three poems establish the presence of diminishing and building designs in the form and content of the poems. (DD)

Contends that arguments against New Criticism should place the movement in historical context. Suggests that historians of American criticism rethink the institutionalization of New Criticism as the work of both liberal intellectuals and pragmatic neoconservatives for whom both traditional liberalism and right-wing ideology were part of the…

Traces the development of the new Black aesthetic criticism, describing the works of writers such as Addison Gayle, Houston Baker, and Amiri Baraka. Points out how, despite many parallels with mainstream White criticism, Black criticism is ignored by the literary establishment. (ARH)

For a woman, the critic's role demands overcoming the difficulties of her peers, audience, editors and judges, in seeing her as a voice to be trusted. (Author/NL)

The author reviews a previous article on poetic meter and then relays his own ideas and proposals on the subject. (MR)

Literature is being confronted by a long existing problem: the distortion of emphasis in a literary analysis which prefers to discuss refinement of style as the prime content of a work, not as the completion of a total effect. (Author/MF)

Discusses the approaches college students often take in writing literary interpretation essays for introductory courses in literature, and suggests more profitable approaches students might take. (DD)

Discusses stories in general, stories in the novel, and "Robinson Crusoe," focusing on what happens in and to narrative--the transformation in the nature of story--that brings the novel into existence. (DD)