The Sonnet and the Sequence

Submitted by Kate Holterhoff on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 13:31

Rossetti's “Sonnet on the Sonnet” served not only as a gift for his mother's birthday and a reflection on a favorite poetic form. Placed at the head of The House of Life, a sonnet sequence on which Rossetti had been working for more than a dozen years, it also introduced the best known and most complete version of that work when it was published in 1881.

General Introduction

Submitted by David Rettenmaier on Tue, 08/13/2019 - 13:27

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem, "The Sonnet," is a testament to the ideals of the aesthetic movement; wedding form and content, it makes a statement about the idealizing purposes of art while illustrating the best way to achieve that purpose in the very stylistic features of a poem. The poem also betrays a number of concerns about the relation of a given aesthetic production to its reader. Is this poem a personal gift (pro Matre fecit) made for the occasion of DGR’s mother’s eightieth birthday?

Trial and Success: A Non-DH Savvy Professor Adopts COVE

Submitted by Laura Rotunno on Fri, 08/09/2019 - 12:31

I came to COVE for multiple reasons but being technologically savvy was not one of them. While I had always used the online course management systems that my university provided, I didn’t do so in innovative ways. I posted assignments, and I had students post responses to excerpts. In other words, I used the online course management systems in ways that saved my students and myself a few paper copies, not in ways that intellectually enhanced our classroom experience.

Heart of Darkness, Part III

Submitted by Katherine Magyarody on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 15:24

Heart of Darkness, Part II

Submitted by Katherine Magyarody on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 15:16

Heart of Darkness, Part I

Submitted by Katherine Magyarody on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 15:15

The (De)collected War of the Worlds

Submitted by Madeline Gangnes on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 17:51

This "edition" is part of a larger project found here. The (De)collected War of the Worlds offers a view of The War of the Worlds within its periodical context, illuminating the novel's serial origins and how they have affected later versions of the text.

Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter

Submitted by David Rettenmaier on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:33

January, 2021

The short story originally published as “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter. Being a Seventh Extract from the Legacy of the Late Francis Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh” in Dublin University Magazine (May 1839) is widely recognized as the earliest masterpiece by the Irish novelist, short story writer, and journalist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873).

In an Artist's Studio

Submitted by Dino Franco Felluga on Fri, 12/21/2018 - 10:48

December, 2019

[A Sonnet is a Moment's Monument]

Submitted by Dino Franco Felluga on Fri, 12/21/2018 - 10:31

December, 2018

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