Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("February")
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"I can't get over / how it all works in together." That's the poet James Schuyler, towards the end of today's poem, "February [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/schuyler/schuyler_february.html]," a favorite of mine, which I had the great fortune to talk about with an old and beloved friend, Eric Lindstrom [https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/eric_lindstrom]. Eric is Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of two books: Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230299412] (Palgrave, 2011) and Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/jane-austen-and-other-minds/C1E29C95B481498C7030894BA1CE6427] (Cambridge UP, 2022). He's also the guest editor of two collections of essays: Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism [http://romantic-circles.org/category/resource-taxonomy/stanley-cavell-and-event-romanticism] (Romantic Circles, 2014) and Ostensive Moments and the Romantic Arts: Essays in Honor of Paul Fry (Essays in Romanticism, forthcoming in March 2023). His essays have appeared in such journals as ELH, Studies in Romanticism, Criticism, Modern Philology, and Modernism/modernity. His most recent article, "Promethean Ethics and Nineteenth-Century Ecologies [https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lic3.12689]," published and available open access at Literature Compass online, was co-written with Kira Braham. Eric is completing a third book, James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside Out, and, from the gleanings of that project, assembling an uncreative, marginally scholarly commonplace called "'Now and Then': A Poetics and Commonplace of Intermittence." As ever, if you're enjoying the podcast, make sure you're following it and consider leaving a rating and review. Share it with a friend! And subscribe to my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/], where you'll get a newsletter (with more links, thoughts, images) to go with each episode.
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