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8. R. P. Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job of Work,” in Form and Value in Modern Poetry (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1957), 339.
9. Ibid., 341.
10. Ibid., 367.
11. Ibid., 339.
12. Ibid., 343.
13. Ibid., 353. My emphasis.
14. In Marjorie Garber, Academic Instincts (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 3–51.
15. Burke never completed college, though he taught in several as a lecturer and visiting professor; Wilson, an influential editor and book reviewer, had a major hand in developing popular appreciation for several important American novelists, and in his own essays and books helped shape twentieth-century literary taste.
16. Edmund Wilson, The Fruits of the MLA (New York: New York Review, 1968), 20.
17. Modern Language Association of America, Professional Standards and American Editions: A Response to Edmund Wilson (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1969), book epigraph.
18. Wilson, Fruits, 35.
19. Wilson, Fruits, 10.
20. Lewis Mumford, “Emerson Behind Barbed Wire,” The New York Review of Books, January 18, 1968, 3–5, 23.
21. Wilson, Fruits, 4, 6–7.
22. Ibid., 7.
23. Ibid., 8.
24. Ibid., 13.
25. Ibid., 20.
26. Ibid., 38.
27. Ibid., 8.
28. Ibid.,17.
29. Ibid., 19.
30. John H. Fisher, “The MLA Editions of Major American Authors,” in Professional Standards, 25.
31. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 44.
32. Virginia Woolf, “How Should One Read a Book?,” The Second Common Reader, ed. Andrew McNeillie (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1986), 270. Originally published in The Yale Review, 1926.
33. Ibid.
34. Andrew McNeillie, introduction to The Common Reader, First Series, xi; Woolf, Diary, May 23, 1921.
35. Samuel Johnson, “Life of Gray,” in Lives of the English Poets (New York: Everyman, 1968), 2:388–89.
36. Ibid., 392.
37. Virginia Woolf, “William Hazlitt,” in The Second Common Reader, 179.
38. Ibid., 182.
39. Ibid., 183. The Hazlitt passage is from “On Old English Writers and Speakers,” in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe (London: Dent, 1930), 2: 292–93.
40. Virginia Woolf, New York Herald Tribune, September 7, 1930; Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 1930.
41. William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating,” in The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 102–13.
42. Ibid., 104.
43. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, vol. 4, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955), 264.
44. Freud, “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming,” in Standard Edition, vol. 9, 143–53. Delivered as a lecture in the rooms of Hugo Heller, December 6, 107. Reported in Die Ziet the following day, full text published in a “newly established Berlin literary periodical” in 1908.
45. Ibid., 152–53.
FIVE So You Want to Read a Poem
1. George Puttenham, The Art of English Poesy (1589), ed. Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 311.
2. Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, vol. 4, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955), 525.
3. Cleanth Brooks, “The Heresy of Paraphrase,” in The Well-Wrought Urn (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947); in The Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory, ed. Vincent Leitch et al. (New York: Norton, 2001), 1,356.
4. Ibid., 1,357.
5. Ibid., 1365.
6. Ibid., 1,362.
7. Cleanth Brooks, “The Formalist Critics,” The Kenyon Review 13, no. 1 (Winter 1951), 72.
8. Cleanth Brooks, “The Heresy of Paraphrase,” 1,368.
9. Ibid., 1,369.
10. Ibid., 1,370.
11. Ibid., 1,371.
12. See Steve Ellis, “The Punctuation of ‘In a Station