Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("Empathy and New Year")
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"New Year is nearly here / and who, knowing himself, would / endanger his desires / resolving them / in a formula?" So asks James Schuyler in this episode's poem, "Empathy and New Year [https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/schuyler/schuyler_empathy.html]." No resolutions for me this year, but instead an indulgence, a gift to myself, and I hope to you: my friend Eric Lindstrom [https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/eric_lindstrom] rejoins the podcast to talk once again about Schuyler, poetry, and friendship. Eric Lindstrom 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, 2022). He is now completing a third book, James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside Out, which would be the first scholarly monograph dedicated to Schuyler's work. Please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear, and share an episode with a friend. Subscribe to my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/], where you'll get the occasional update on the podcast and on my other work.
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