Authors, Speakers, Readers in a Trio of Sea-Pieces in Herman Melville's John Marr and Other Sailors

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Sean Ford
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Public Audience

Much recent interest in Herman Melville's poetry involves reassessing its position both within the Melville canon and within or against various literary traditions. This essay considers the range of stances, speakers, and personae in John Marr and Other Sailors With Some Sea-Pieces (1888) and its resonances of past works as evidence that Melville is more committed to a public audience and less oppositional or adversarial to established traditions than a number of scholars have proposed. A study of topical and rhetorical interdependencies in a sequence of poems in the volume uncovers dynamic affinities, whether by direct influence or otherwise, with William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, and Walt Whitman, participants in Melville's own recurring urge to tell of things that cannot be told. Through a communion of voices, “The Æolian Harp,” “To the Master of the ‘Meteor,’” and “Far Off-Shore” display varying and alternating expressions of this urge as part of a rhetorical project that invites readers to interact and ultimately acquiesce in essential limits of accessing and telling the truth.

William Shakespeare

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Wells
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Narrative Poems

William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction provides a guide to the life and writings of one of the world’s greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, it explores Shakespeare’s social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, it also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare’s narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, this VSI outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare’s career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations.

2. American English as a poetic resource

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-45
Author(s):  
David Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Walt Whitman ◽  
American English ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ◽  
Harryette Mullen ◽  
Cross Fertilization

“American English as a poetic resource” argues that American English is one of the country’s great poetic resources. It is remarkably adaptable, contested, and diverse. When poets explore American English’s poetic usefulness, the diversity of their approaches and interests demonstrates the language’s flexibility. They use American English to critique and celebrate America and its literary traditions and to create a distinctive literature that also draws from traditions outside it. They mark differences as well as affinities. In some cases, the poetry shows an exuberant appreciation of American English’s peculiarities, its quirks and openness to experimentation and cultural cross-fertilization. Discussed poets include Walt Whitman, Harryette Mullen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ezra Pound, and Robert Frost.

Understanding Fanny

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Author(s):  
Rachel Kilgore
Keyword(s):  
Church Attendance ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Recent Interest ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
Spiritual Expression ◽  
Hebrew Tradition

Abstract Though there has been recent interest in how Jane Austen’s faith influenced her novels, scholars have generally looked to her reading in philosophy and sermons, her spiritual expression, or her Anglicanism, and have neglected the more direct influence of the Bible. Yet judging from Austen’s lifelong church attendance and her reading of the Book of Common Prayer, we can conclude that she would have heard the Psalms read entirely through once every month of her forty-one years. This paper explores the resemblance between the psalmists and Fanny Price in terms of their shared experience of exile, their patterns of lament and reminder, their long wait for deliverance, and their final homecoming. Comparing Fanny Price’s character to the psalmists recasts her as a heroine in the Hebrew tradition, offering a new understanding of her passivity and suggesting that her author was more influenced by scriptural patterns than has been heretofore understood.

Coleridge and Shakespeare

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Close Reading

This article examines the role of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a critic of William Shakespeare. It discusses the loss of Coleridge's notebook for the Lectures on the Principles of Poetry, which made it difficult to accurately assess his criticism on Shakespeare. The article suggests that the innovations of Coleridge's criticism came out of the depths of his own mind and years of thinking on the principles of poetry, while his close reading of Shakespeare provided him with the necessary figures, accidents, and minutiae to substantiate his claims.

Walt Whitman and the Week of Modern Arts in Brazil

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Alita Sodré Dawson
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
English Literature ◽  
New Age ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lyrical Ballads ◽  
Significant Change

In English Literature a significant change took place in 1798 originated by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge who in Lyrical Ballads broke with the reigning school of Pope and the spirit of the 18th century to achieve a new art freer in form and suited to the spirit of their time: Coleridge with poems of romantic wonder, Wordsworth with poems of nature and simple humanity. The new poetic tradition established by them and later romantic poets remained in authority in America until 1855 when the revolt of Walt Whitman, breaking away from the past, proclaimed a new age for America's poetry. Whitman considered himself - and was to some extent for his time - a literary radical, and as such he did not hesitate to write essays, poems, or utter remarks which among other things anathematized the poetry of his day.

Features of the Christian values ​​system

2004 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
G.V. Pyrog
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Value System ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Very High

In domestic scientific and public opinion, interest in religion as a new worldview paradigm is very high. Today's attention to the Christian religion in our society is connected, in our opinion, with the specificity of its value system, which distinguishes it from other forms of consciousness: the idea of ​​God, the absolute, the eternity of moral norms. That is why its historical forms do not receive accurate characteristics and do not matter in the mass consciousness. Modern religious beliefs do not always arise as a result of the direct influence of church preaching. The emerging religious values ​​are absorbed in a wide range of philosophical, artistic, ethical ideas, acting as a compensation for what is generally defined as spirituality. At the same time, the appeal to Christian values ​​became very popular.

THE EFFECT OF REPUTATION AND COMPETENCE ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY THROUGH CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Ari Dwi Astono ◽  
Widji Astuti ◽  
Harianto Respati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Analysis Technique

This study aims to analyze the effect of reputation, competence on customer loyalty with customer satisfaction as an intervening variable. The population in this study were students of private tertiary institutions in Central Java who are members of Services for Higher Education Institutions Region VI, while a sample of 5 private universities, using the purposive sampling method, was taken with the Slovin formula of 190 respondents. The analysis technique uses regression analysis. Research results show the customer satisfaction variable can be an intervening variable or able to mediate between the direct influence of the reputation variable and the competency variable on customer loyalty variables.

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