Publications

Books

• Words worth and Poetry of What We Are,Yale Univ. Press, May 2008
• Ed.,“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ”with Contemporary Critical Essays (Bedford- St.Martin’s,1999)
• A Defense of Poetry:Reflection son the Occasion of Writing (Stanford Univ. Press,1995)
• William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice (London:Routledge,1991)
• The Reach of Criticism:Method and Perception in Literary Theory (Yale Univ.Press,1983).
• The Poet’s Callingin the English Ode (Yale Univ.Press,1980).

ForthcomingBooks

• IntroductiontoLiteraryTheory(Fall2011)
• OnIsland:TheInventionofNantucket
• ThreeRomanticisms:Byron,Shelley,Keats

ArticlesandReviews

• “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” in three publications: Grasmere 2009: Selected Papers from the Summer Wordsworth Conference; The Wordsworth Circle; The Yale Review (shorter version), all 2011.
• “How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading,” for a British anthology on Harold Bloom, Manchester Univ. Press, ed. Alan Rawes, 2009, and published also in an MLQ special issue on “Influence,” ed. Andrew Elfenbein.
• “The Lamplit Answer? Gjertrud Schackenberg’s Antiekphrases,” In the Frame: Women’s Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler, ed. Jane Hedley, Nick Halpern, and Willard Speigelman (Newark: U. of Delaware Press, 2009), 55-71.
• “Romanticism as Theory,” Romanticism Today: Selected Papers from the Tübingen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, ed. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009), 41-51.
• Review of Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era, Modern Philology 106 (2008), 170-74.
• “The Experience of Art: Beyond the Agreeable, the Beautiful, and the Good,” Philoctetes: The Journal of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination 2:2 (2008)
• “How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading,” Modern Language Quarterly 69:4 (2008), 437-59.
• “The History of the Yale English Department,” Yale University English Department Website, 2008
• Review of Susan Wolfson, Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism, MLQ 69 (2008), 303-06.
• “Hermeneutic Circling: Empson, Rosamund Tuve, and the ‘Wimsatt Law,’” Some Versions of Empson, ed. Matthew Bevis (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007)
• Review of Anthony Bailey, John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own, ArtNews 2007.
• “Progresses of Poetry,” The Wordsworth Circle 37:1 (2006), 22-27.
• Introduction, “Children’s Literature in the Classroom,” On Common Ground, 2006.
• Review: “Richard Hamilton, Metaromanticism,” Clio 2005.
• “Green to the Very Door? The Natural Wordsworth,” The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson (Johns Hopkins, 2005)
• “Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach, ed. Sam M. Intrator et al.” On Common Ground, 2004.
• “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” in three publications: Grasmere 2009: Selected Papers from the Summer Wordsworth Conference; The Wordsworth Circle; The Yale Review (shorter version), all 2011.
• “How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading,” for a British anthology on Harold Bloom, Manchester Univ. Press, ed. Alan Rawes, 2009, and published also in an MLQ special issue on “Influence,” ed. Andrew Elfenbein.
• “The Lamplit Answer? Gjertrud Schackenberg’s Antiekphrases,” In the Frame: Women’s Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler, ed. Jane Hedley, Nick Halpern, and Willard Speigelman (Newark: U. of Delaware Press, 2009), 55-71.
• “Romanticism as Theory,” Romanticism Today: Selected Papers from the Tübingen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, ed. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009), 41-51.
• Review of Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era, Modern Philology 106 (2008), 170-74.
• “The Experience of Art: Beyond the Agreeable, the Beautiful, and the Good,” Philoctetes: The Journal of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination 2:2 (2008)
• “How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading,” Modern Language Quarterly 69:4 (2008), 437-59.
• “The History of the Yale English Department,” Yale University English Department Website, 2008
• Review of Susan Wolfson, Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism, MLQ 69 (2008), 303-06.
• “Hermeneutic Circling: Empson, Rosamund Tuve, and the ‘Wimsatt Law,’” Some Versions of Empson, ed. Matthew Bevis (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007)
• Review of Anthony Bailey, John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own, ArtNews 2007.
• “Progresses of Poetry,” The Wordsworth Circle 37:1 (2006), 22-27.
• Introduction, “Children’s Literature in the Classroom,” On Common Ground, 2006.
• Review: “Richard Hamilton, Metaromanticism,” Clio 2005.
• “Green to the Very Door? The Natural Wordsworth,” The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen Regueiro Elam and Frances Ferguson (Johns Hopkins, 2005)
• “Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach, ed. Sam M. Intrator et al.” On Common Ground, 2004.
• “Ezra Stiles’s Idea of a University,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (2002).
• “Pop Goes Ulysses (Richard Hamilton’s Joyce Illustrations in Dublin),” ArtNews (July 2002).
• “Jeffreyism, Wordsworth, and the Nonhuman in Nature,” British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review, Bicentenary Essays. Ed. Massimiliano Demata and Duncan Wu (London: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2002).
• “Narrative Privilege,” Yale Journal of Ethics (2001)
• “Ezra Stiles: An Interdisciplinary President?” Whitney Humanities Center Newsletter (February 2000)
• “Classical Standards in the Romantic Period,” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 5, ed. Marshall Brown and Ernst Behler (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000)
• “I. A. Richards,” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 7, ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000).
• “Beneath Interpretation: Intention and the Experience of Literature,” The Arts and Sciences of Criticism, ed. David Fuller and Patricia Waugh (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999)
• “Beneath Interpretation: Significance and the Experience of the Literary,” Kulturwissenschaften: Positionen und Perspektiven. Ed. Johannes Anderegg and Edith Anna Kunz (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 1999)
• Review, “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-1950, Whitney Museum,” ArtNews (June 1999), 124.
• “Looking at Pictures: David’s L’Amour Quittant Psyche,” ArtNews (March 1999), 94-96.
• “Romancing the Poem: Delacroix’s Bride of Abydos,” ArtNews (December 1998), 128.
• Review, “Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 8, ed. Raman Selden,” Modern Philology 96 (1998), 287-90.
• “Introduction,” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Paul H. Fry (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1999)
• “Wordsworth in the Rime,” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Paul H. Fry (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1999)
• “Animal Speech, Active Verbs, and Material Being in E. B. White,” Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History, ed. Jennifer Ham and Matthew Senior (London: Routledge, 1997)
• “Green to the Very Door? The Natural Wordsworth,” Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996), 535-51.
• Rpt.: “The Other Harmony of Dryden’s Preface to Fables,” John Dryden, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1989)
• “Non-Construction: History, Structure, and the Occasion of the Literary,” Yale Journal of Criticism I, 2 (1988), 45-64.
• Rpt.: “La Possessione del Sublime,” La Via al Sublime, ed. M. Brown, V. Fortunati, G. Franci (Firenze: Alinea, 1987).
• “The Possession of the Sublime,” Studies in Romanticism 26 (1987), 187-207.
• “The Scarlet Letter” (review of Rubem Fonseca, High Art), Review (Center for Inter-American Relations) 37 (1987), 77-79.
• “Ode,” The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms, rev. ed.; ed. Alex Preminger (Princeton Univ. Press). Revision of existing article by S. F. Fogle.
• Rpt.: “Thomas Gray’s Feather’d Cincture,” Poets of Sensibility, ed. Harold Bloom, (New York: Chelsea House, 1987)
• “Afterword: Literary Criticism at Yale,” Yale Graduate Alumni Bulletin (1986).
• “History, Existence, and ‘To Autumn,’” Studies in Romanticism 25 (l986), 211-19.
• “Disposing of the Body: The Romantic Moment of Dying,” Southwest Review 71(1986), 8-26.
• “Back in Yale Again: A Reply to Charles Altieri,” Diacritics 15 (1985), 66-70.
• Rpt.: “Shelley’s Defence of Poetry in Our Time,” Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1985).
• “O Felix Crisis: The Curse of Cain’s Cures” (review of William Cain, The Crisis in Criticism), Virginia Quarterly (1985), 718-22.
• “Moving Van: The Neverland Veens of Nabokov’s Ada,” Contemporary Literature 26 (1985), 123-39.
• “Jean Jacques Rousseau,” European Writers: The Age of Reason and Enlightenment, vol. 4, ed. George Stade (New York: Scribners, 1984), pp. 449-74.
• “Literatures and Our Discontents” (review of books by Jerome McGann, Terry Eagleton, and Helen Vendler), Yale Review (Summer 1984), 603-16.
• “The Image of Walter Benjamin,” Raritan 2 (1983), 131--52.
• “Northrop Frye’s Myth of Concern” (review of The Great Code), Yale Review (Summer 1983), 605-12.
• Review,”John Reichert, Making Sense of Literature,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 9 (1972), 87-89.
• “Dryden’s Earliest Allusion to Longinus,” English Language Notes 19 (1981), 22-24.
• “Made Men: A Review Article on Recent Shelley and Keats Studies,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 21(1979), 433-54.
• “Georgic Comedy: The Fictive Territory of Jane Austen’s Emma,” Studies in the Novel 11 (1979), 129-46.
• “Thought to the Second Power: A Romance,” Structuralist Review 2 (1979), 14-29.
• “The Absent Dead: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Epitaph,” Studies in Romanticism 17 (1978), 413-33.
• Review, “Murray Krieger, Theory of Criticism,” Structuralist Review 1 (1978), 110-15.
• “Oedipus the King,” Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions, ed. Michael Seidel and Edward Mendelson (Yale Univ. Press, 1977), 171-90.
• “Phaedra,” Homer to Brecht (1977), 273-91.

Forthcoming Articles and Reviews

• “’A Modest Creed: Saving Skepticism in Shelley and Cavell,’” for an anthology on Cavell and romanticism edited by Eric Lindstrom (in Romantic Praxis online, gen. ed. Orrin Wang)
• “Paul Mellon’s Legacy,” ArtNews
• “The Intentional Fallacy,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. Gregory Castle
• “The Poetic Function in Jakobson,” Ibid.

Public Lectures and Symposia

• Fall 2011: “Hirsch or Gadamer: Are There Consequences?” Conference on “The Politics of Interpretation,” Oxford University.
• Spring 2011: “Constable and Wordsworth’s ‘Gleam that never was, on sea or land’: “Peele Castle,” “Hadleigh Castle,” Elizabethan Club, Yale.
• Spring 2011: “Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America,” Greenwich Book Club.
• Spring 2011: “The Cute.” Keynote address at the annual graduate student conference in Comparative Literature, Yale.
• Fall 2010: “’A Modest Creed’: Saving Skepticism in Shelley and Cavell,” International Conference on Romanticism, Lubbock, TX.
• Summer 2010: “Constable and Wordsworth’s ‘Gleam that never was, on sea or land’: “Peele Castle,” “Hadleigh Castle,” University of Munich.
• Spring 2010, “Conrad’s The Secret Agent,” Greenwich Book Club.
• July 2009: “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” Annual Wordsworth Conference, Grasmere
• Spring 2009: “Honourable Toil: Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” In the Company of Scholars, Yale University
• Spring 2009: “Darwin, Literature, and the British Art Center Darwin Exhibit,” Greenwich Book Club, April
• 2008. “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” International Conference on Romanticism, Rochester, MI, October
• 2008. “David Cox’s Watercolors,” North American Victorian Studies Conference, Yale University, October
• 2008. “Is Constable Wordsworthian? A Dissenting View,” Art in Context lecture, Yale Center for British Art, October.
• Fall 2008: “The History of the Yale English Department,” “Using Theory” Series,Yale University, September
• 2008. “Mansfield Park and the English Landscape Garden,” Greenwich Book Club, April
• 2008: Moderator, Round Table on Metaphor, Philoctetes Society, New York, March
• 2008: “Hoof After Hoof, Metric Time in Wordsworth,” Princeton University, March
• 2007. “Brooks Reads Wordsworth,” Symposium on Cleanth Brooks, Yale University, October.
• 2007. Moderator, Conference on Yehuda Amichai, Yale University, October
• 2007. “On Detective Fiction,” The Yale National Initiative, July.
• 2007. “Empson Using Biography,” Biography Colloquium, Yale Unversity, February.
• 2007. “Romanticism as Theory,” Freie Universität, Berlin, June; University of Tübingen, October.
• 2006. “Empson Using Biography,” Symposium: “William Empson at 100,” Harvard University, October.
• 2006. “Anselm Kiefer, ‘Velimir Chlebnikov and the Sea,” and Günter Grass, Crabwalk,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT), September.
• 2006. “Talking Animals in Children’s Literature,” The Yale National Inititiative, July.
• 2006. Moderator, “Literature and Psychoanalysis,” Philoctetes Society, New York, May.
• 2006. “Are All Islands the Same? Nantucket Musings,” Ezra Stiles College, March.
• 2006. “Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Greenwich Book Club, March
• Fall 2011: “Hirsch or Gadamer: Are There Consequences?” Conference on “The Politics of Interpretation,” Oxford University.
• Spring 2011: “Constable and Wordsworth’s ‘Gleam that never was, on sea or land’: “Peele Castle,” “Hadleigh Castle,” Elizabethan Club, Yale.
• Spring 2011: “Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America,” Greenwich Book Club.
• Spring 2011: “The Cute.” Keynote address at the annual graduate student conference in Comparative Literature, Yale.
• Fall 2010: “’A Modest Creed’: Saving Skepticism in Shelley and Cavell,” International Conference on Romanticism, Lubbock, TX.
• Summer 2010: “Constable and Wordsworth’s ‘Gleam that never was, on sea or land’: “Peele Castle,” “Hadleigh Castle,” University of Munich.
• Spring 2010, “Conrad’s The Secret Agent,” Greenwich Book Club.
• July 2009: “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” Annual Wordsworth Conference, Grasmere
• Spring 2009: “Honourable Toil: Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” In the Company of Scholars, Yale University
• Spring 2009: “Darwin, Literature, and the British Art Center Darwin Exhibit,” Greenwich Book Club, April
• 2008. “Time to Retire? Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work,” International Conference on Romanticism, Rochester, MI, October
• 2008. “David Cox’s Watercolors,” North American Victorian Studies Conference, Yale University, October
• 2008. “Is Constable Wordsworthian? A Dissenting View,” Art in Context lecture, Yale Center for British Art, October.
• Fall 2008: “The History of the Yale English Department,” “Using Theory” Series,Yale University, September
• 2008. “Mansfield Park and the English Landscape Garden,” Greenwich Book Club, April
• 2008: Moderator, Round Table on Metaphor, Philoctetes Society, New York, March
• 2008: “Hoof After Hoof, Metric Time in Wordsworth,” Princeton University, March
• 2007. “Brooks Reads Wordsworth,” Symposium on Cleanth Brooks, Yale University, October.
• 2007. Moderator, Conference on Yehuda Amichai, Yale University, October
• 2007. “On Detective Fiction,” The Yale National Initiative, July.
• 2007. “Empson Using Biography,” Biography Colloquium, Yale Unversity, February.
• 2007. “Romanticism as Theory,” Freie Universität, Berlin, June; University of Tübingen, October.
• 2006. “Empson Using Biography,” Symposium: “William Empson at 100,” Harvard University, October.
• 2006. “Anselm Kiefer, ‘Velimir Chlebnikov and the Sea,” and Günter Grass, Crabwalk,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT), September.
• 2006. “Talking Animals in Children’s Literature,” The Yale National Inititiative, July.
• 2006. Moderator, “Literature and Psychoanalysis,” Philoctetes Society, New York, May.
• 2006. “Are All Islands the Same? Nantucket Musings,” Ezra Stiles College, March.
• 2006. “Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Greenwich Book Club, March