Being Several
Reading Blake with Ed Roberson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4896952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tristram Wolff (0009-0002-9025-6159, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 553-578 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2018.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2913966661 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This essay takes the issue’s temporal prompt—“Romanticism, Now and Then”—as a chance to think about forms of rhythmic and rhetorical self-difference in the poetry of William Blake, read by way of the poetry of Ed Roberson. Both are poets who present the reader with overlapping forms of time in human and natural worlds. I draw on social theories (Du Bois, Mead, Fabian, Silva) and critical reading practices (Reed, Terada) that train the reader’s attention on the kinds of sociality and duration palpable through poetry’s formal resources. Borrowing cues from Roberson’s poetry, and taking up recent poetic orientations in critical race theory, I attempt a new look at Blake’s “The Tyger,” particularly its receptivity or vulnerability to the mixed durations of other parts or inhabitants of the world. For Blake, as for Roberson, attention to endangerment is also a way of exploring coevalness. However, I am also arguing here that familiar accounts of Romanticism’s feel for material natures and environmental consciousness require more attention to sociospatial and chronopolitical orientations, as constitutive of any politics of nature
Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Natural (archaeology) · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Rhetorical question · Romanticism · Sociality · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
Scale and Geographic Inquiry
The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead
Die vielköpfige Hydra
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition
Toward a Global Idea of Race
Souls of Black Folk
The Racial Grammar of Kantian Time
Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic
Dark Voices
Romantic Ecocriticism Lately
Notes for a Critique of the ‘Metaphysics of Race
Darker Than Blue
Scale
Romanticism and Language
The Time of Slavery
To See the Earth Before the End of the World
Down Break Drum
Mind, Self, and Society
Facing the Planetary
Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene
Spaces of Vulnerability
Sociology and the Theory of Double Consciousness
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |