Literature

Introduction to the Omnibus Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “On a Portrait of Wordsworth”

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Introduction to the Omnibus Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “On a Portrait of Wordsworth”

Dino Franco Felluga, The Omnibus and COVE
 Christopher Rovee, Portrait and Poem
 Marjorie Stone, Evolving Sonnet: Composition, Contexts, and Textual History
 Joshua King, Genre and Form

On a Portrait of Wordsworth

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July, 2018

On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B.R. Haydon

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July, 2018

This edition of EBB’s sonnet, most widely known under the title of “On a Portrait of Wordsworth, by R. B. Haydon,” is the first effort to create what we are calling an “omnibus edition” of a literary work.  The edition brings together three tools that have been created for The COVE: an annotation tool, a timeline-builder, and a geospatial map-builder.

Heart of Darkness, Part III

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Heart of Darkness, Part II

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The Sonnet

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March, 2016
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem, “The Sonnet,” is the first poem in the sonnet sequence House of Life. This COVE edition will bring together a handful of editors to explore the prosodic brilliance of the poem.

Heart of Darkness, Part I

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Heart of Darkness

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February, 2016

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, first published serially in 1899 and then in book form in 1902, explores with unparalleled intensity the enormity of European imperialism in Africa. A prescient instance of what would become the literary movement known as modernism, the novella also experiments with frame narration and features a complex, highly figurative style.

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