Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Sociopolitical (i.e., Romantic) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics*

Robert Kaufman, Stanford University

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---., and Walter Benjamin. Briefwechsel 1928-1940. Ed. Henri Lonitz. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994; trans. Nicholas Walker under the title The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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---. "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire." In Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. New York: Schocken, 1969. Ed. and introduced by Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, pp. 217-251, 155-200; "Über einige Motive bei Baudelaire," Gesammelte Schriften. Most of these texts are likewise found in Benjamin, Illuminationen: Ausgewählte Schriften vol. 1.2: 605-653.

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---., and Laurie Reid. Symbiosis. Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 2000.

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Kaufman, Robert. "A Future for Modernism: Barbara Guest’s Recent Poetry." American Poetry Review 29:4 (July/August 2000): 11-16.

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---. "Red Kant, or The Persistence of the Third Critique in Adorno and Jameson." Critical Inquiry 26: 4 (Summer 2000): 682-724.

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