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Item An Excerpt from Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets After Auden(2016-11-09) Connolly, SallyThe elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s "Lycidas," Shelley’s "Adonais," and Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"—are elegies for poets. In Grief and Meter, Sally Connolly offers the first book to focus on these poems and the role they play as a specific subgenre of elegy, establishing a genealogy of poetry that traces the dynamics of influence and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She identifies a distinctive and significant Anglo-American line of descent that resonates in these poems, with British poets often elegizing American ones, yet rarely the other way around. Further, she reveals how these poems function as a means of mediating, effecting, and tracing transatlantic poetic exchanges. The author frames elegies for poets as a chain of commemoration and inheritance, each link independent, but when seen as part of the "golden chain," signifying a larger purpose and having a correspondingly greater strength. Grief and Meter provides a compelling account of how and why these poems are imbued with such power and significance.Item An Excerpt from Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetics(2018-10-26) Connolly, SallyAn excerpt from Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetics by Sally Connolly, published by Madhat PressItem ‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s legacy(2007-05-14) Connolly, SallyA postprint version of ‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s legacy, by Sally Connolly, published in Yeats Annual 17 (2007).Item Lyric Vistas: Genre and the American Long Poem from Whitman to Neruda (1855-1950)(2017-08) Singer, Erin C.; Mikics, David; Connolly, Sally; Ehlers, Sarah; Snediker, Michael D.; Carrera, AlessandroThe purpose of this study is to take a wide-open view of hemispheric American poetry. World literature and genre studies constitute the framework for analyzing three book-length poems that hybridize epic and lyric modes of poetry. Beginning in 1855 with Walt Whitman’s first edition of Leaves of Grass, continuing through Hart Crane’s 1930 The Bridge, and culminating with Pablo Neruda’s 1950 Canto general, this dissertation dives into the mystery of how this hundred-year hemispheric collection of works composes a genealogy of American poetry and poetics. I also argue for poetry’s own critical and theoretical interventions, tracing idealist and materialist strains of thought in each of these epic projects. The method by which I perform my formal and thematic analyses is close reading. The poetic strategies discovered yielded a theoretical framework I call vista, a term that recasts space as scale, and emphasizes multiple points of view. Vista is a shifting of perspective, reliant on the subjectivity of the lyric mode but shading toward the epic. It implies enormous breadth and suggests futurity. Whitman’s vista encompasses certain things, Crane’s another, and Neruda’s still another. Ultimately, I conclude that the epic poem written in a lyric mode elides distances between literature and theory, between ideology and art, and between reality and the possibilities of the imagination.Item Now Sing: Reflections on Modernism and Queering Translation(2018-05) Bancroft, Christian; Tejada, Roberto J.; Connolly, Sally; Snediker, Michael D.; Gregory, Elizabeth; Rasula, JedNow Sing explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the idea of queering translation. Queering translation, Bancroft argues, is a mode of translation that resists dominant practices, such as a fluent knowledge of the source language or the continuing suppression of marginalized identities, like women and queerness. Using ideas espoused by Jack Halberstam, Elizabeth Grosz, and William Spurlin as foundations for his arguments, Bancroft demonstrates that queering translation disrupts canonicity as Pound, Hughes, and H.D. resist traditional practices that canonical translations tend to assume. Now Sing intervenes in current discussions regarding New Modernist Studies, specifically, in areas of gender, sexuality, and race. Ultimately, this study expands contemporary conversations regarding Modernism and its lasting importance in the twenty-first century.Item Review of All the Rage by Paul Magrs(2001-08-17) Connolly, SallyA review of All the Rage by Paul Magrs published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Consequences by U. A. Fanthorpe(2001-04-13) Connolly, SallyA review of Consequences by U. A. Fanthorpe published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy, by Diana Fuss(2013-04-26) Connolly, SallyA review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy, by Diana Fuss published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig(2000-11-24) Connolly, SallyA review of Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Madonna: An Intimate Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli(2001-07-27) Connolly, SallyA review of Madonna: An Intimate Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Mr Strangelove, by Ed Sikov(2002-10-18) Connolly, SallyA review of Mr Strangelove, by Ed Sikov published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of Pictures of You by Matt Thorne(2001-09-21) Connolly, SallyA review of Pictures of You by Matt Thorne published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of The Bluebird Café by Rebecca Smith(2001-05-04) Connolly, SallyA review of The Bluebird Café by Rebecca Smith published in The Times Literary SupplementItem Review of The Oxford Handbook of Poetry, Ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford University Press) and The Elegies of Ted Hughes by Edward Hadley (Palgrave Macmillan)(2011-03-25) Connolly, SallyA review of The Oxford Handbook of Poetry, Ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford University Press) and The Elegies of Ted Hughes by Edward Hadley (Palgrave Macmillan) published in The Times Literary Supplement