Essays

Ends and Elisions in Wordsworth’s Counting Songs · Essays in Criticism

Wallace Stevens’ Foreign Song, or Reading Paul Valéry in America · Literary Imagination

Paul Valéry and the Mechanisms of Modern Tyranny · The Hedgehog Review

The Failure of Form · review essay on Baudelaire, Late Fragments, tr. Richard Sieburth) · Nineteenth Century Contexts

Swann's Gambit · review essay on Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism, by Zakir Paul · The Yearbook of Comparative Literature

On Renaissance Literature

The Night Departure: Tracing Medieval Epic from Ariosto to Milton · Modern Philology

Quest'è la letra: From Lyric Parody to Modern Tragedy in Ruzante's Venice · MLN

Myth and Politics in Tasso’s Inverted Medieval Epic · Storie e linguaggi