Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry

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Notes on contributors
Introduction Richard Machin and Christopher Norris
1. Presentation and representation in the Renaissance lyric: the net of words and the escape of the gods Murray Krieger
3. Speculations: Macbeth and source Jonathan Goldberg
4. Trust and transgression: the discursive practices of Much Ado about Nothing John Drakakis
5. Donne's praise of folly Thomas Docherty
6. Love and death in 'To His Coy Mistress' Catherine Belsey
7. Towards the autonomous subject in poetry: Milton's 'On His Blindness' Antony Easthope
8. Pope among the formalists: textual politics and 'The Rape of the Lock' Christopher Norris
9. Gray's 'Elegy': inscribing the twilight Stephen Bygrave
10. From topos to trope, from sensibility to Romanticism: Collins's 'Ode To Fear' Harold Bloom
11. Sex and history in The Prelude (1805): Books IX to XIII Gayatri C. Spivak
12. Bounding lines: The Prelude and critical revision Jonathan Arac
13. Coleridge and the deluded reader: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Frances Ferguson
14. Evening star and evening land Geoffrey Hartman
15. Ozone: an essay on Keats Richard Rand
16. Strategies of containment: Tennyson's In Memoriam Rob Johnson
17. Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's 'In Front of the Landscape' J. Hillis Miller
18. Yeats in theory Daniel O'Hara
19. The spider and the weevil: self and writing in Eliot's early poetry Maud Ellmann
20. Frost's thanatography Wallace Martin.

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