Coleridge and Synesthesia: An Introduction
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet of rare talents and a man of extraordinary genius. Partially responsible for producing one of the most significant books of poetry in the history of the English language – Lyrical Ballads – he was an individual with an astoundingly complex variety of interests, a writer who exercised a sophisticated command of [...]
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San Francisco Poetry Reading w/ Micah Robbins, David Hadbawnik, and music by Kaitlin McGaw — 1/16/12
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Why Liberation News Service Matters
For literary and cultural critics interested in history, there is no substitute for primary source material. Primary sources like the Liberation News Service (LNS) packets that Felix Zapata and I have been slowly making available in searchable html format at the Underground Press Archive are invaluable resources for understanding a volatile, idiosyncratic, and decisive period [...]
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Notes on Four Illustrated Dantes
THE BRESCIA DANTE Published in 1487 by Boninus de Boninus, The Brescia Dante was the first printed Dante to include woodcut illustrations. It contains 68 woodcuts (one for each Canto of the poem) of varying sophistication, all of which are contained within one of two elaborate borders. The Brescia Dante is among Boninus’s greatest works, for it [...]
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