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Beornn McCarthy

Beornn McCarthy is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne with a Masters in English Literature. He has lectured and tutored in many subjects in English literature at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. He is currently working on a monograph about the life and writings of Isaac D’Israeli in the Romantic era.

Review Short: Lynley Edmeades’s As the Verb Tenses

As the Verb Tenses is a rare debut collection of poems that dazzles and delights with a profane, childlike wisdom. Acts of movement and play energise an accomplished performance held together by rare precision and a gentle power.

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Review Short: The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays: Mystery and Interpretation in Romantic Literature

Romantic poems are elusive creatures. Exhibit A is William Blake’s ‘The Blossom’ (1789), in which a mysterious voice asks a pretty robin, a blossom, and the reader, to ‘seek your cradle narrow’. Perhaps by the necessity of the uncanny danger of meaning, readings of Romantic poetry have always been accompanied by disputes about Romanticism as a movement. These conflicts seem to encompass an entire political shift in an age of revolutions.

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