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Steven J. Venturino

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Exploring Tennyson’s In Memoriam

Registration is now closed. A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar Since the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s book-length poem In … More

In Memoriam, poetry, Tennyson

Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”

“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if … More

analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, new criticism, poetry, William Empson

Brooks and Poetic Language

“But the poet has no one term. Even if he had a polysyllabic technical term, the term would not provide … More

ambiguity, Cleanth Brooks, connotation, literary theory, paradox, poetic language, poetry, tension

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