Reception Of Poem Research Articles

“The Lantern of Typography”: “Christabel,” “Kubla Khan,” and Poetic Mediation

This article examines the complex performance and publication histories of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Christabel” and “Kubla Khan” in order to explore how the transition from manuscript and memory to print could affect the reception of a poem within coteries of Romantic-era readers. These poems make good case studies for examining this question for two principal reasons. First, both circulated for nearly two decades between “the summer of the year 1797” when Coleridge claimed to have written “Kubla Khan,” and May 1816 when John Murray published Christabel, Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleep. Second, a number of Coleridge's contemporaries left detailed and revealing accounts of the performance and reception of both poems prior to and after their publication. William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Clement Carlyon, Walter Scott, Henry Crabb Robinson, Lord Byron and William Hazlitt are all on record having heard or recited one or both of the poems.

Pour une redéfinition du collage : poétiques et lectures poétiques américaines

Toward a definition of coilaging : composition and reception in American poetry. In an attempt to define the modalities of collage in poetry, in relation to the visual arts and above all to the Modernist poem, this paper reconsiders Ezra Pound's Cantos under the sign of compacting, questions the reduction of collage to mere practices of decomposition and recomposition, and opens the debate to the part played by procedures in the composition and reception of poems : as centred on textual generation as well as on the products of creation, Gertrude Stein’s text emerges as seminal in the construction of language poetry and Jackson Mac Low’s procedural poetry allows for a redefinition of collage and more generally of the poetic in terms of architecture.