"Soundings of Things Done": The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era

Essays from the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia revised for a new hearing in Romantic Praxis, promoted not only from narrow wind-tunnel to worldwide web, but also released from the torture to twenty minutes on the MLA's new LimiTimer: a branded coinage, catchily two-sided, with a single shared T facing in opposite directions at once, that reads like a lampoon of those blended phonetic effects in Romantic verse that each of the speakers tries in various ways to keep in earshot—not to mention a parody of romantic end-rhyme itself, with its metrically clocked bounds of sound.