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McGrath's sophisticated, nuanced readings powerfully endorse his charge to read poetically and skillfully reveal the surprise of poetry and of its difficulty and untimeliness. This insightful study should be of great interest to scholars of Romanticism and poetry but also to those interested in new formalism, literary theory, and the future of literary studies.-- Choice Reviews Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.---Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.---Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric

Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight. ---Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world. ---Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric,

. . .[A] glorious call to read subversively and experimentally, and thereby to reinvigorate poetry by deliberately blinding oneself to what one thought poetry makes possible in hopes of seeing poetic making anew.-- ""Modern Philology"" . . . McGrath's book unfolds invaluable layers of meaning and his ""look[ing] round for poetry"" proves most rewarding. . . readers can certainly benefit from his informed, penetrating analyses and from the clarity and brevity of his style: virtues too often neglected now in favor of critical obfuscation.-- ""Review 19"" McGrath's sophisticated, nuanced readings powerfully endorse his charge to read poetically and skillfully reveal the surprise of poetry and of its difficulty and untimeliness. This insightful study should be of great interest to scholars of Romanticism and poetry but also to those interested in new formalism, literary theory, and the future of literary studies.-- ""Choice Reviews"" Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.---Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.---Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric

Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.---Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.---Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric,

Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory 'after' theory. McGrath's book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.---Anahid Nersessian, author of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry--as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.---Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric

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Brian McGrath is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy.

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