the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley) elevated

Dickinson's dashes do

Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought

New Criticism

New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object

The Spirit of Romance

Ezra Pound's "The Spirit of Romance" advocates synchronous scholarship of literature

Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront

Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront seductive prose in the service of a monster's self-justification

William Blake

William Blake was both a poet and a visual artist

Neruda's poetry does with everyday objects

Neruda's poetry elevates everyday objects like onions and socks into profound symbols of love and wonder