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An investigative and practical treatise on the state of the humanities. -- John Axcelson, Columbia University, The Wordsworth Circle Woodring eloquently shows how philosophical divisiveness combined with dwindling economic resourses has created upheaval in today's litearture departments. -- Library Journal Woodring... happily resists the temptation to pen a polemical culture-wars screed. Instead, he combines a short history of his discipline with sensible recommendations for its future. -- Publishers Weekly

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Carl Woodring is Woodberry Professor Emeritus of Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Politics in English Romantic Poetry, Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, and Nature Into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He is the editor of Table Talk in the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Columbia History of British Poetry, and, with James Shapiro, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry.

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