
Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention
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Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention
Dickinson's dashes do
Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought
New Criticism
New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object
The Spirit of Romance
Ezra Pound's "The Spirit of Romance" advocates synchronous scholarship of literature
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront seductive prose in the service of a monster's self-justification
William Blake
William Blake was both a poet and a visual artist
Neruda's poetry does with everyday objects
Neruda's poetry elevates everyday objects like onions and socks into profound symbols of love and wonder
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