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Leona Toker – Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: From Self-Consciousness to Sympathy

Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: From Self-Consciousness to Sympathy Leona Toker Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) In “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798,” the speaker, biographically identified with Wordsworth himself, contemplates a landscape well−remembered since a […]

Maurice Hunt – Old England, Nostalgia, and the “Warwickshire” of Shakespeare’s Mind

Old England, Nostalgia, and the “Warwickshire” of Shakespeare’s Mind Maurice Hunt Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) “He was wont to go to his native country once a year,” the seventeenth−century biographer John Aubrey pronounced concerning the playwright Shakespeare’s relationship with his native place, the Midlands town Stratford−upon−Avon.14) No one […]

John Russell Brown – Revisiting Halberstadt, July 1997

Revisiting Halberstadt, July 1997 John Russell Brown Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) The idea was simple compared to the event: an international symposium on “A Place Revisited,” to be held at the Gleimhaus library−museum at Halberstadt, the town in rural Saxony where the founder−editor of Connotations, Professor Dr. Inge […]

Inge Leimberg – Editor’s Preface

Editor’s Preface Inge Leimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 7.2 (1997/98) When, in 1991, I revisited my hometown Halberstadt after a 35 years’ absence, the impact was of a kind to make me wish for seeing the motif or theme of revisiting a place reflected in literature. The result was a […]

Bernfried Nugel – Modernism Revisited: Willi Erzgräber’s Studies in Modern English and Anglo-Irish Literature

Modernism Revisited: Willi Erzgräber’s Studies in Modern English and Anglo-Irish Literature Bernfried Nugel Published in Connotations Vol. 7.1 (1997/98) “The structure is now visible.” —Virginia Woolf70) By the very fact of its publication, a book of critical essays like Erzgräber’s collection nolens volens constitutes a challenge to the contemporary state […]