Abstract:This essay takes the issue’s temporal prompt—“Romanticism, Now and Then”—as a chance to think about forms of rhythmic and rhetorical self-difference in the poetry of William Blake, read by way of the poetry of Ed Roberson. Both are poets who present the reader with overlapping forms of time in human and natural worlds. I draw on social theories (Du Bois, Mead, Fabian, Silva) and critical reading practices (Reed, Terada) that train the reader’s attention on the kinds of sociality and duration palpable through poetry’s formal resources. Borrowing cues from Roberson’s poetry, and taking up recent poetic orientations in critical race theory, I attempt a new look at Blake’s “The Tyger,” particularly its receptivity or vulnerability to the mixed durations of other parts or inhabitants of the world. For Blake, as for Roberson, attention to endangerment is also a way of exploring coevalness. However, I am also arguing here that familiar accounts of Romanticism’s feel for material natures and environmental consciousness require more attention to sociospatial and chronopolitical orientations, as constitutive of any politics of nature.

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多人：与埃德·罗伯森一起阅读布雷克

摘要：本文以该问题的时间性提示“浪漫主义，时而后”为契机，思考威廉·布莱克诗歌中有节奏和修辞的自我差异形式，并通过埃德·罗伯森的诗歌进行了解读。两位诗人都向读者展示人类和自然世界中重叠的时间形式。我借鉴了社会理论（杜波依斯，米德，法比安，席尔瓦）和批判性阅读实践（里德，泰拉达），它们通过诗歌的形式资源来培养读者对社交性和持续时间的关注。借用罗伯逊诗歌的线索，并采用批判种族理论的最新诗学取向，我尝试重新审视布莱克的《泰格》，尤其是其对世界其他地区或居民的混合生活的接受或脆弱性。对于布雷克，对于罗伯逊，对濒临灭绝的关注也是探索同龄化的一种方式。但是，我在这里也要争辩说，浪漫主义对物质自然和环境意识的熟悉描述需要更多地关注社会空间和时间政治取向，因为这是任何自然政治的基础。