Courtney Weiss Smith
@cweiss-smith.bsky.social
professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
That’s actually lovely and notable. Smith can sometimes be a real jerk to Smith. 🤪
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
That’s actually lovely and notable. Smith can sometimes be a real jerk to Smith. 🤪
“I deeply appreciate Lynch’s generosity,” said Lynch in response.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“I deeply appreciate Lynch’s generosity,” said Lynch in response.
I wasn’t criticizing—I found this interesting, the reformatting exercise in particular! I just intuited something implicit in both, thinking about rhyme as something more structural in relation to the line’s meter or rhythm.
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I wasn’t criticizing—I found this interesting, the reformatting exercise in particular! I just intuited something implicit in both, thinking about rhyme as something more structural in relation to the line’s meter or rhythm.
He says it dismissively but I’d love to read a defense of the logic and the pleasures of that kind of thing, especially in relation to a history unmetrical rhyming that includes Moore and Brooks…
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
He says it dismissively but I’d love to read a defense of the logic and the pleasures of that kind of thing, especially in relation to a history unmetrical rhyming that includes Moore and Brooks…
Oh this is a curious review—quite close really to Hollander’s logic but way more recent.
I’m interested, though, in his suggestion that we can sometimes understand this rhyme as high concept…
I’m interested, though, in his suggestion that we can sometimes understand this rhyme as high concept…
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Oh this is a curious review—quite close really to Hollander’s logic but way more recent.
I’m interested, though, in his suggestion that we can sometimes understand this rhyme as high concept…
I’m interested, though, in his suggestion that we can sometimes understand this rhyme as high concept…
Ooooh this is an especially good example in relation to Hollander’s!
November 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ooooh this is an especially good example in relation to Hollander’s!
I *knew* you’d had something interesting to say about this—thank you!!! Also I haven’t read that Merrill text and I literally must, immediately….
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I *knew* you’d had something interesting to say about this—thank you!!! Also I haven’t read that Merrill text and I literally must, immediately….
@mongibeddu.bsky.social @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social any ideas?!
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@mongibeddu.bsky.social @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social any ideas?!
I also welcome other examples of this! I feel like it’s also sort of common when people write looser riffs on the sonnet form…
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I also welcome other examples of this! I feel like it’s also sort of common when people write looser riffs on the sonnet form…
Thinking about this partly because teaching a bit of John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason reminded me he was sort of brutal about this. Where’s the positive account of these possibilities?!
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thinking about this partly because teaching a bit of John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason reminded me he was sort of brutal about this. Where’s the positive account of these possibilities?!
Ah yes I see what you mean. But the sex… I’m not sure Henry Tilney is up for it LoL but I don’t think it’s entirely escapism but at least the proximity to the real, even a kind of proxy real, that motivates many of today’s romantasy readers…
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ah yes I see what you mean. But the sex… I’m not sure Henry Tilney is up for it LoL but I don’t think it’s entirely escapism but at least the proximity to the real, even a kind of proxy real, that motivates many of today’s romantasy readers…
(Same same…)
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
(Same same…)
Nikki I feel like this reasoning is spot on—but also that it makes romantasy a big contender too!
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Nikki I feel like this reasoning is spot on—but also that it makes romantasy a big contender too!
Has anyone said romantasy? I feel like the answer has to be romantasy….
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Has anyone said romantasy? I feel like the answer has to be romantasy….
(With thanks to @weslpress.bsky.social ‘s wonderful Suzanna Tamminen for introducing me to this poem!)
October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
(With thanks to @weslpress.bsky.social ‘s wonderful Suzanna Tamminen for introducing me to this poem!)
I’d be curious if book store could do. I feel like it absolutely helps student focus and participation to have the copies mandated in front of them, computers closed unless there is a particular accommodation.
October 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’d be curious if book store could do. I feel like it absolutely helps student focus and participation to have the copies mandated in front of them, computers closed unless there is a particular accommodation.
(And if you are just doing excerpts, there’s no worries about permissions—it’s all fair use)
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
(And if you are just doing excerpts, there’s no worries about permissions—it’s all fair use)
🤚 I do coursepacks. Gotta have hard copies to scribble up! Our campus print shop will still do and it’s *always* worth it…
October 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
🤚 I do coursepacks. Gotta have hard copies to scribble up! Our campus print shop will still do and it’s *always* worth it…
Curated by the wonderful Miya Tokumitsu!
August 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Curated by the wonderful Miya Tokumitsu!