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David Collings is a professor of English at Bowdoin College.
""In Blank Splendour David Collings explores the impossible terrain implied by Keats's formulation. How do we experience an affectless affect? Collings coins the phrase 'mere existence' to resist the consolidation implied by 'being.' The stakes and rewards in locating such (non)experiences in Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Turner are hard-earned through impressive philosophical rigour and wonderfully precise close readings - a book of stunning critical interventions.""--Alan Vardy, Professor Emeritus of English, Hunter College at the City University of New York ""Blank Splendour brings British Romanticism to its minimalist limit point, erasing any vestige of human subjectivity in poetry and painting. In this disquieting confrontation with total poetic barrenness, we discover something that oddly persists, surviving every negation.""--David Sigler, Professor of English, University of Calgary
