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  • If the poem's aesthetic seductions have teased countless critics into the delusions of understanding, they have also prompted some of the most important critical encounters in Romantic studies, among which Ferris's chapter on the poem in Silent Urns is the most powerful recent example that I can point to.

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

  • "Urns," he rattled on, 'will provide handsome talking points; fountains are being assembled to provide aural delight.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • Set of Swedish Moderne Style Oak Benches, estimate $600-$900 Pair of Polished Metal Urns, estimate $100-$200 Mr. Hadley and Sister Parish were never furniture snobs—with the best taste in the world, they didn't need to be.

    Albert Hadley's Spring Cleaning 2011

  • Urns or other containers are typically interred at a depth of three feet; coffins are usually buried at five or seven feet.

    Remains in Arlington grave may have been dug up elsewhere Christian Davenport 2010

  •             “So where's the nearest Urns-R-Us?” she asked, abruptly changing the subject.

    Gone Shopping 2009

  • < P class = MsoNormal style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; tab-stops:. 5in" > “So where's the nearest Urns-R-Us?” she asked, abruptly changing the subject.

    Gone Shopping Garrett Socol 2009

  • The Spittle Urns are mixed with the ashes from ashtrays all over america!

    Think Progress » CEI Defends Chewing Tobacco’s Honor 2006

  • We in the Bay Area were attending so many funerals a day the crematoriums could not get to all the bodies in time to display the Urns, and many funeral homes would not touch the bodies at all.

    Leslie Griffith: Circus Elephants with Tuberculosis are a Real Threat to People 2008

  • In what follows I won't try to trace filiations between the essays collected here and their authors 'previous work — David Ferris's analysis of modernity, criticism, and aesthetics in his brilliant Silent Urns, or Ian Balfour's reading of inspiration and self-loss in his award-winning The

    Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

  • Silent Urns, Ferris arrives at some crucial formulations which complicate the de Manian reading and demonstrate that insistence is the perhaps the best way to characterize the relationship between Kant and

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

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