Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

809. Stepping Westward

1:45–3:00 p.m., Platinum Salon H, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on the English Romantic Period

Presiding: Celeste G. Langan, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1. “Coleridge’s Westward Dejection and the Criticism of Life,” Noel Jackson, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

2. “Sailing Westward: Wordsworth and Byron between Climates of Empire,” Samuel E. Baker, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “‘Why Westward Turn?’: Keats and the Progress of Poesy,” Yohei Igarashi, New York Univ.

Respondent: Maureen Noelle McLane, New York Univ.

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