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“ ‘What is Historical Poetics?’ ” Modern Language Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2016): 13-40.
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“Dickinson Undone,” Raritan (Spring, 2005), Vol. XXIV, Number 4, 128-148.
“Longfellow in His Time,” Chapter 11 of the Cambridge History of American Poetry, ed. Alfred Bendixon and Stephen Burt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April, 2015
“The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics,” forthcoming in Critical Rhythm, ed. Jonathan Culler and Ben Glaser (Fordham UP)
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The Lyric Theory Reader
On Periodization
Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading
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