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Jonathan Goldberg was Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists; Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility; and Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. His writing centered on early modernity but ranged from Sappho and Willa Cather to Patricia Highsmith and Todd Haynes in exploring questions of materiality and sexuality.
A major critical voice in our time, Jonathan Goldberg tracks proliferating antinomies in the texts of early modern lyric poets from Shakespeare to Donne and, triumphantly, Herbert. He does so through readings of visionary twentieth-century critics, notably Empson, on how poetry opens life to ontic states beyond the scope of life itself. ---Gordon Teskey, Harvard University, In this succinct and lyrical study, Jonathan Goldberg examines how three critics--T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson--found inspiration in early modern literature for the central ideas we now associate with modernism. Goldberg's ingenious close reading of these writers' influential essays brings out fresh and unexpected implications with regard to gender, sexuality, subjectivity, and poetics. In the spirit of Ezra Pound's famous rallying-cry 'make it new, ' Goldberg renews and revitalizes the early modern canon along with the masterworks of modernist criticism. ---Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago,
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