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“‘Music is feeling, then, not sound’: Rhyme in the Development of Wallace Stevens” (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, J. (2016). “‘Music is feeling, then, not sound’: Rhyme in the Development of Wallace Stevens”. The Cambridge Quarterly, 45(4), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfw022

Wallace Stevens sits uneasily in the modernist canon. Whereas the verse principles of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound – two obvious comparators – have become almost synonymous with the broader movement they did so much to shape, Stevens’s poetics are less... Read More about “‘Music is feeling, then, not sound’: Rhyme in the Development of Wallace Stevens”.

Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2018). Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature. Literature and Theology, 32(3), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frw039

Few studies have addressed comprehensively the place of jesting in early modern pulpit rhetoric. This article documents some of the humour—jests and witty speech—in the period’s extant sermon literature. Specifically it identifies the analytical pote... Read More about Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature.

Unravelling Eliot (2016)
Book Chapter
Harding, J. (2016). Unravelling Eliot. In J. Harding (Ed.), The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (1-25). Cambridge University Press

Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan” (2016)
Journal Article
Al-Akhras, S., & Green, M. (2017). Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan”. The Seventeenth Century, 32(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2016.1252279

The seventeenth century witnessed a burgeoning of Arabic studies in the universities and the first English translation of the Turkish Alcoran (1649). However, John Milton has generally been passed over in scholarship concerned with the influence of A... Read More about Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan”.