The English Studies Book

Though only 34 years old at the time of his death in 1917, T.E. Hulme had already taken his place at the center of pre-war London’s advanced intellectual circles.

The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages.

The important question is not whether they should be encouraged or prohibited but whether the choice to engage in such a relationship should be protected or precluded. Abramson argues ringingly that our freedom to make choices–to worship, make a political speech, or fall in love–is fundamental. Rules forbidding faculty-student romances are not only unconstitutional but set dangerous precedents for further intrusion into rights of privacy and conscience.

In early modern culture and in Milton’s poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land.