“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Eleventh Essay This Year Is on Byron

“She Walks in Beauty like the Night in which All Cows Are Black: Byron's Nonhuman,” Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry (Routledge, 2016), 57–68.

Great conference, that was, when I presented this as a lecture. You should totally get this or borrow this volume if you like poetry and are interested in the Romantic period.

11 essays isn't as much as the 25 of last year, but still...

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