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Getting it wrong in "The Lady of Shalott"

Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses famously declares, "Video meliora proboque,/ deteriora sequor"--I see what is better, and I approve of it; I pursue...
Victorian Poetry, 03/22/09 by Erik Gray · More from publication
FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, in and out of time

This issue of Victorian Poetry commemorates a double anniversary: March 31, 2009 marks both the bicentennial of the birth of Edward FitzGerald and...
Victorian Poetry, 03/22/08 by Erik Gray · More from publication
A bounded Field: situating Victorian poetry in the literary landscape

thy province [is] not large, A bounded field, nor stretching far. --Tennyson, In Memoriam XLVI thy province [is] not large, A bounded field, nor...
Victorian Poetry, 12/22/03 by Erik Gray · More from publication
19th century AD

Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam constantly advises the reader to forget-preferably with the help of a drink: "Ah, my Beloved, fill the...
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 09/22/01 by Erik Gray · More from publication
Nostalgia, the classics, and the Intimations Ode: Wordsworth's forgotten education

Between 1819 and 1824 Wordsworth undertook a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, which eventually included Books 1 to 3 nearly complete and only two...
Philological Quarterly, 03/22/01 by Erik Gray · More from publication

Getting it wrong in "The Lady of Shalott"