Seamus Perry

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2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992

2008

  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LVIII. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • Editor, Coleridge’s Responses. Selected Writings on Literary Criticism, the Bible and Nature. Volume I: Coleridge on Writing and Writers. (Coleridge’s Responses: General Editor, John Beer.) London: Continuum. Pp. xvii+605. (ISBN 987-0-8264-8372-0.)


  • ‘Tennyson and the Legacies of Romantic Art’; Romanticism 14.1 [‘Romantic Legacies’ special number, ed. Michael O’Neill], 1-12. (ISSN 1354-991X.)


  • REVIEW: ‘A Man of Singular Opinions’ (review of Duncan Wu: New Writings of William Hazlitt); Times Literary Supplement 5481 (18 April 2008), 12. (ISSN 0307661.)

2007

  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LVI. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • ‘Empson’s Coleridges’; in Matthew Bevis (ed.), Some Versions of Empson (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 104-30. (ISBN 0 19 928636 2.)
  • ‘Coleridge in England’; in Elinor Shaffer and Edoardo Zuccato (eds.), Coleridge in Europe (London: Continuum), 14-26. (ISBN 9 780 82646845 1.)


  • REVIEW: H.J. Jackson: Romantic Readers; The Wordsworth Circle XXXVII (2007), 212-14. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: William Christie: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life; Review of English Studies NS 58 (2007), 411-13. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: ‘Silent Poesy’ (review of Angela Leighton: On Form); Times Literary Supplement 5447/8 (24 and 31 August 2007), 12. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: Chris Jones: Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry; English 216 (2007), 373-7. (ISSN 0013-8215.)
  • REVIEW: Christopher R. Miller: The Invention of Evening; Review of English Studies NS 58, 744-6. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: Jack Stillinger: Romantic Complexity: Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth; The Keats-Shelley Review 21 (2007), 143-6. (ISSN 0952-4142.)

2006

  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LVI. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • ‘Versions of the Mariner’; in Robert Woof, Stephen Hebron, Seamus Perry, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust), 21-31. ISBN 1 90256 12 4 (cloth) / 1 90256 11 6 (paperback).


  • ‘Joy Perplexed: Optimism and Complication in Wordsworth, T.H. Green and A.C. Bradley’ (‘Commentary’ essay); Times Literary Supplement 5389 (14 July 2006), 13-15. (ISSN 0307661.)


  • ‘Signage’; Oxford Magazine 253 (Eighth Week, Trinity Term 2006), 10-11.
  • ‘Professor Jonathan Wordsworth’ (obituary); The Times 68746 (7 July 2006), 62.


  • REVIEW-ESSAY: ‘Self-Management’ (review of Lynda Pratt et al (ed.): Poetical Works of Robert Southey); London Review of Books 28.2 (26 January 2006), 18-21. (ISSN 0260-9592.)

2005

  • Alfred Tennyson (Plymouth: Northcote House / The British Council; Writers and their Work series: General Editor, Isobel Armstrong).


  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LV. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • 'Romantic Afterlives: Literary Criticism and Theory’; in Nicholas Roe (ed.), Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 593-606. (ISBN 0 19 925840 6.)


  • REVIEW: ‘The Little Horror Show’ (review of Carlo M. Bajetta (ed.): William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Hamilton Reynolds, Peter Bell. The 1819 Texts); Times Literary Supplement 5312 (21 January 2005), 5 [second lead]. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: Leah Price: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel; British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 28 (October 2005), 33-4. (ISSN 0964-2447.)
  • REVIEW: ‘Old Druid Time’ (review of Vivien Noakes (ed.), The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg); Times Literary Supplement 5356 (25 November 2005), 8. (ISSN 0307661.)

2004

  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LIV. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • ‘New Impressions: The Mirror and the Lamp’; Essays in Criticism LIII, 260-82. (ISSN 0014-0856.)
  • ‘The Romantic Matter of Fact’; The Wordsworth Circle XXXV, 103-7. (ISSN 0043-8006.)

  • REVIEW: Matthew Bevis et al, Lives of Victorian Literary Figures; Tennyson Research Bulletin 8.2 (November 2003 [i.e. March 2004]), 146-8. (ISSN 0082-2841.)
  • REVIEW: Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding (eds.), The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. V; The Wordsworth Circle 34, 182-3. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: ‘Enlightened Romantics’ (review of Leith Davis, Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen (eds.), Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism); Times Literary Supplement 5290 (20 August 2004), 7-8. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: Tim Milnes, Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose; Review of English Studies NS 55, 629-30. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: ‘The Wise Man’s Table’ (review of G.F. Bentley, Blake Records; Morton D. Paley, The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake); Times Literary Supplement 5298 (15 October 2004), 3-4 [lead review].


  • POEM: ‘A Textual Note on the Curtain Speech in The Tempest’; Scrawl: Balliol College New Writing 8 (Trinity 2004), 21.

2003

  • Editor, Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press).Paperback: revised and corrected reprint. Pp. xxiv + 264. (ISBN 0 19 871201 4.)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: British Library/New York: Oxford University Press; Writers' Lives series).


  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LIII. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • ‘Wordsworth and Coleridge’; in William Baker and Ken Womack (eds.), The Year’s Work in English Studies 81: 2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press: for the English Association), 641-59. (ISBN 0 19 851986 1 / ISSN 0084-4144; on-line ISSN 1471-6801.)
  • ‘Wordsworth and Coleridge’; in Stephen Gill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.), 161-79. (ISBN hdbk.: 0 521 64116 0; pbk.: 0 521 64681 2.)


  • ‘Tennyson, Wordsworth, and the Two Voices of Poetry’; The Tennyson Research Bulletin 8:1 (‘November 2002’), 11-27. (ISSN 0082-2841.)


  • REVIEW-ESSAY: ‘Hail, Muse!’ (review of Ian Gilmour: The Making of the Poets; and Jerome J. McGann: Byron and Romanticism); London Review of Books 25:3 (6 February 2003), 31-2. (ISSN 0260-9592.)
  • REVIEW: ‘Elegant, Unnatural Scots’ (review of Robert Crawford (ed.): ‘Heaven-Taught Fergusson’: Robert Burns’s Favourite Scottish Poet); Times Literary Supplement 5223 (9 May 2003), 11-12. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: David P. Haney: The Challenge of Coleridge; Modern Language Review, 98, 694-5. (ISSN 0026-7937.)
  • REVIEW: Robert Crawford: The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s; Romanticism 9, 102-4. (ISSN 1354-991X.)
  • REVIEW: ‘Lend Thy Books to STC’ (review of H.J. Jackson (ed.): A Book I Value: Selected Marginalia of S.T. Coleridge); Times Literary Supplement 5234 (25 July, 2003), 9-10. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW-ESSAY: ‘In Flesh-Coloured Silk’ (review of Paul Hamilton: Metaromanticism); London Review of Books 25:23 (4 December 2003), 16-18. (ISSN 0260-9592.)
  • REVIEW: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetical Works, ed. J.C.C. Mays; Review of English Studies. (ISSN 0034-6551.)


  • LETTER: ‘German Studies’, Guardian Review (19 July 2003), 8.

2002

  • Editor, Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press). Pp. xxiv + 264. (ISBN 0 19 871201 4.)


  • Co-editor, with Stephen Wall and Christopher Ricks, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press), vol. LII. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'; in William Baker and Ken Womack (eds.), The Year's Work in English Studies 80: 1999 (Oxford: Oxford University Press: for the English Association), 485-503. (ISBN 0 19 851086 1 / ISSN 0084-4144 / on-line ISSN 1471-6801.)
  • '"The Grandeur of the Actual": Grigson, "Negative Capability", and Romantic Sensibility'; in C.C. Barfoot and R.M. Healey (eds.), 'My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye': Observing Geoffrey Grigson (DQR Studies in Literature 33; Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi), 131-41. (ISBN 90 420 1358 3.)
  • 'Elegy'; in Richard Cronin, Antony J. Harrison, and Alison Chapman (eds.), A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Malden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell), 115-133. (ISBN 0 631 22207 3.)
  • 'The Talker'; in Lucy Newlyn (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.). (ISBN hdbk: 0 521 65071 2; pbk: 0 521 65909 4.)
  • 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'; in William Baker and Ken Womack (eds.), The Year's Work in English Studies 81: 2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press: for the English Association). (ISBN 0 19 851986 1 / ISSN 0084-4144; on-line ISSN 1471-6801.)


  • 'Coleridge, Catholicism, and the Devil in a Strait Waistcoat'; Notes and Queries NS 49, 25-8. (ISSN 0029-3970.)
  • 'In Praise of Puny Boundaries'; The Wordsworth Circle ('Joseph Johnson and his Circle' Special Number). (ISSN 0043-8006.)


  • REVIEW: Jack Stillinger: Reading "The Eve of St. Agnes": The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction; Modern Philology 100, 130-33. (ISSN 0026-8232.)
  • REVIEW: Marshall Brown (ed.): The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. V: The Romantic Age; Review of English Studies NS 53, 273-6. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: Martin Harries: Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Re-Enchantment; The Wordsworth Circle XXXII, 202-3. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: Fiona Stafford: Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney; Review of English Studies NS 53, 567-8. (ISSN 0034-6551.)



2001


2000

  • Editor, S.T. Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave). Pp. xviii + 300. (ISBN 0 333 68159 2.)


  • 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'; in Peter J. Kitson (ed.), The Year's Work in English Studies 78: 1997 (Oxford: Blackwell: for the English Association), 456-76. (ISBN 0 631 20460 1 / ISSN 0084-4144.)


  • 'Practical Criticism: W.H. Auden's "The Secret Agent"'; The English Review 10:3 (February 2000), 6-8. (ISSN 0955-8950.)
  • 'Coleridge's Millennial Embarrassments'; Essays in Criticism L, 1-22. (ISSN 0014-0856.)


  • REVIEW: Richard Holmes: Coleridge: Darker Reflections; The Wordsworth Circle XXX, 177-79. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: Andrew Bennett: Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity; Review of English Studies NS 51, 121-3. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: Edward Larrissy (ed.): Romanticism and Postmodernism; Notes and Queries NS 47, 532-4. (ISSN 0029-3970.)


1999

  • Coleridge and the Uses of Division (Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press; Oxford English Monographs series). Pp. xvi + 303. (ISBN 0 19 818397 6.)


  • 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'; in Peter J. Kitson (ed.), The Year's Work in English Studies 77: 1996 (Oxford: Blackwell: for the English Association), 467-87. (ISBN 0 631 20460 1 / ISSN 0084-4144.)
  • 'Romanticism'; in Iain McCalman (ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. British Culture 1776-1832 (Oxford: Oxford U.P.), 682-3. (ISBN 0 19 812297 7.)


  • REVIEW: Jennifer Ford: Coleridge on Dreaming; Review of English Studies NS 50, 250-1. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: Stephen Gill: Wordsworth and the Victorians; The Wordsworth Circle XXIX, 197-8. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: John Beer: Providence and Love; The Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 107 (July 1999), 129-30. (ISSN 0308-0951.)
  • REVIEW-ESSAY: Graeme Stones and John Strachan (eds.): Parodies of the Romantics; Romanticism on the Net 16 (November 1999), [n.p.]. (ISSN 1467-1255.)
  • REVIEW: James Chandler: England in 1819; Romanticism 5, 258-61. (ISSN 1354-991X.)
  • REVIEW: Robert Crawford (ed.): The Scottish Invention of English Literature; Review of English Studies NS 50 , 556-7. (ISSN 0034-6551.)


  • LETTER: 'Zizeked'; London Review of Books 21:11 (27 May 1999), 5. (ISSN 0260-9592.)


1998

  • Co-editor, with Nicola Trott,'Lyrical Ballads, 1798-1998' Special Number, Romanticism on the Net 9 (March 1998), [n.p.]. (ISSN 1467-1255.)
    Including: co-authored with Nicola Trott, 'Introduction: The Lyrical Ballads, 1798-1998'.


  • 'Coleridge's Names'; The Coleridge Bulletin NS 11 (Spring 1998), 37-47. (ISSN 0968-0551.)
    Reprinted Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000). (ISSN 1467-1255.)
  • 'Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Other Things'; The Wordsworth Circle XXIX, 31-41. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • 'Practical Criticism: Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving but Drowning'; The English Review 9:1 (September 1998), 14-16. (ISSN 0955-8950.)


  • REVIEW: Zachary Leader: Revision and Romantic Authorship; Review of English Studies NS 49, 93-5. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: Robert C. Griffin: Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography; Review of English Studies NS 49, 97-8. (ISSN 0034-6551.)
  • REVIEW: 'What the Poem "Knows"' (review of Michael O'Neill: Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem); Times Literary Supplement 4964 (22 May 1998), 32. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: 'Location, location, location' (Paul Magnuson: Reading Public Romanticism); Times Literary Supplement 4976 (14 August 1998), 26-7. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: 'The Romantics In Brief' (review of six titles); Times Literary Supplement 4981 (18 September 1998), 36. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads 1800 ('In Brief' review); Times Literary Supplement 4983 (2 October 1998), 36-7. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW-ESSAY: 'Formal Pleasures' (Susan Wolfson: Formal Charges: Formalism in English Romantic Poetry); Essays in Criticism XLVIII, 384-91. (ISSN 0014-0856.)
  • REVIEW: Michael O'Neill: Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem; Romanticism on the Net 12 (December 1998), [n.p.]. (ISSN 1467-1255.)


1997

  • 'Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept'; 'Coleridge: "Kubla Khan", "The Ancient Mariner", "Christabel"'; and 'Romantic Literary Criticism'; in Duncan Wu (ed.), A Companion to Romanticism (Oxford: Blackwell), 3-11, 131-43, 371-82. (ISBN 0 31 19852 0.)
    Paperback edition, 1999. (ISBN 0 631 21877 7.)


  • 'Coleridge's Turtle: Coleridge and the Divisibility of Life', The Wordsworth Circle XXVIII, 27-34. (ISSN 0043-8006.)


  • REVIEW-ESSAY : Walter Pape and Frederick Burwick (eds.): The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery; Michael Dobson: The Making of the National Poet; Jean I. Marsden: The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory; John Bullen: The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing; Lisa Low and Anthony John Harding (eds.): Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism; The Wordsworth Circle XXVIII, 223-26. (ISSN 0043-8006.)
  • REVIEW: 'The Italian Coleridge' (review of Edoardo Zuccato: Coleridge in Italy), The Coleridge Bulletin NS 9 (Spring 1997), 67-73. (ISSN 0968-0551.)
  • REVIEW: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb: Poems 1797 ('In Brief' review), Times Literary Supplement 4913 (30 May 1997), 25. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: Vincent Newey and Philip Shaw (eds.): Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography; British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 13 (December 1997), 22. (ISSN 0964-2447.)


1996

  • 'Coleridge, the Return to Nature, and the New Anti-Romanticism: An Essay in Polemic'; Romanticism on the Net 4 (November 1996). (ISSN 1467-1255.)


  • REVIEW: 'The Finished Article' (review of Rosemary Ashton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography); Times Literary Supplement 4850 (15 March 1996), 36. (ISSN 0307661.)
  • REVIEW: 'Auden's Libretti' (review of Edward Mendelson (ed.): The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Libretti 1939-73); The W.H. Auden Newsletter 14 (April), 16-21. (ISSN 0995-6095.)
  • REVIEW: 'A New Life of Coleridge' (review of Rosemary Ashton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography); The Coleridge Bulletin NS 7 (Spring 1996), 49-55. (ISSN 0968-0551.)
  • Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey; Alina Clej: A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing); Essays in Criticism XLVI, 272-80. (ISSN 0014-0856.)
  • REVIEW: Robert C. Griffin: Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography; Romanticism on the Net 4 (November 1996). (ISSN 1467-1255.)
  • REVIEW: Nancy Easterlin: Wordsworth and the Question of Romantic "Religion"; David Goslee: Romanticism and the Anglican Newman; The Wordsworth Circle XXVII, 186-8. (ISSN 0043-8006.)


1995

  • 'The Ancient Mariner Controversy'; The Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 92 (October 1995), 208-223. (ISSN 0308-0951.)
  • 'Attempts at Sublimity: Young Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner'; The Coleridge Bulletin NS 6 (Autumn 1995), 20-49. (ISSN 0968-0551.)


  • REVIEW: John Beer: Romantic Influences and Inaugural Lecture; The Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 89 (January 1995), 39-40. (ISSN 0308-0951.)


1994

  • REVIEW: Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest (eds.): Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism; The Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 87 (July 1994), 123-24. (ISSN 0308-0951.)


1993

  • 'Charles Lamb and the Cost of Seriousness', The Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 83 (July 1993), 78-89. (ISSN 0308-0951.)
  • 'Professor John Bayley'; in The St.Catherine's Year 1992 (Oxford, 1993).


1992

  • REVIEW: 'Nothing to Confess?' (review of Stephen Berg: New and Selected Poems), Times Literary Supplement 4658 (10 July 1992), 23. (ISSN 0307661.)


  • POEM: 'The Sea and the Land: A Poem in Eight Sonnets'; in Jon Stallworthy (ed.), The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Poetry (Cambridge/Oxford: Varsity/Cherwell, 1992), 49-59. (ISSN 1352-3511.)
    Reprinted in Andrew Motion and Nick Cave (eds.), May Anthologies 2002: Tenth Anniversary Edition (Cambridge/Oxford: Varsity/Cherwell, 2002), 121-5. (ISSN 0 902240 33 1).