Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of American and Spanish Literatures
Gayle Rogers
Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South
Shalini Puri
Caribbean Military Encounters
Shalini Puri
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (New Modernisms)
Gayle Rogers
How to Play a Poem
Don Bialostosky
Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Nancy Glazener
Schooling New Media
Tyler Bickford
Aspects of Strangers
Piotr Gwiazda
US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012
Piotr Gwiazda
The Critics and the Prioress: Criticism, Antisemitism, and Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale
Hannah Johnson
I have always imagined Paradise will be a kind of library.
Borges
Literature is news that stays news.
Pound
Politics in a work of literature is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
Stendhal
I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s Monster
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Hemingway
’Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Emerson
Every allegedly great age is an age of translations.
Pound
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
Rushdie
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison, Nobel Acceptance Speech
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Eliot
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
Thoreau
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily Dickinson
Poetry makes nothing happen.
Auden
Poetry Fetter’d, Fetters the Human Race! Nations are Destroy’d, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry Painting and Music, are Destroy’d or Flourish!
Blake
On or about December 1910, human character changed.
Woolf
It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Austen
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page of prancing Poetry