OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Literary Imagination is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Google Earth	4
Between the Desire and the Spasm Falls the Shadow: Difficult Distances in Louise Glück’s Poetry	1
Omar and Me	1
Moonshot	1
Dragonfly	0
A Poem Miroslav Holub Might Have Written	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Symbolic World of Poetic Fame	0
John Muir’s Thoreau	0
Agatha, or Open Water: A Nantucket Obituary	0
Euclid with Flashlight on the Bridge of Asses	0
Bal Masqué	0
Remembering a Great Love in Letters: Salomón de la Selva to Edna St. Vincent Millay	0
The Angel of History	0
2001: A Space Odyssey	0
Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Remembering Homer with Trees	0
In Dreams	0
An “Invitation to Learning”: Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book, Everyman’s Library, and the Ideal of a “Common Culture”	0
Now That I Am Dead	0
The Fever for Autobiography: Assumption and Confession in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel	0
Putting on the Style	0
I Am Sick of Reading Poems about Paintings by Vermeer	0
Audubon Circle	0
A New Way to Pay Old Debts	0
A Feminist Critique of J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians: How One Piece of 1980s Literature Continues to Perpetuate Misogynistic Ideology	0

Dorothea’s “Flood of Young Passion”: Dualism of the Practical Reason in Middlemarch and The Methods of Ethics	0
Windrows	0
Robert Pinsky and the Post-Confessional Didactic	0
On Looking into the 1950 Census	0
Sordello: The Epic of Doubt	0
Poetry and Its Institutions: Auden, Jarrell, and Arendt at Midcentury	0
Melville’s Lyrical Turn: Prophecies of Populism in Battle Pieces	0
Review of David Ferry, Some Things I Said	0
“Being Nothing”: The Consolation of Words in Richard II	0
Racist Discourse and Literary Reputation: The Consequences of Robert Penn Warren’s “Pondy Woods”	0
My Father's Teeth	0
Van Gogh and British Literature: The Influence of Felix Holt on His Mind and Art	0
Elegy for Elsworth E. Berno	0
Dorothy Parker Among the Poets	0
Cassiopeia	0
Between Things and Words	0
Fishing Downstream	0
Rumination at Wellfleet	0
Piano in the Airport	0
Fireflies	0
Change of Plans	0
Cycladic Idyll	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Selections from the Kuruntokai: Translated from the Ancient Tamil	0
February Rime	0
“Lake Balaton”	0
What Loneliness Feels Like	0
Man Swimming in Home-Dug Pool	0
August Meditations	0
Sound as a Sense of the Future in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts	0
Hopkins’s Clouded Judgment	0
Zephyr	0
Wallace Stevens’ Foreign Song, or Reading Paul Valéry in America	0
Pandora’s Prairie	0
Portraiture and Paratext: Meta-Ekphrasis, Subversions of the National Tale, and the Reclamation of the Imperial Gaze in The Wild Irish Girl	0
Autistic Savant, Hold the Savant	0
Covid Spring	0
Coral	0
Hitting Billy: Mediated Interiority in Billy Budd	0
Q and Hellfire Sermons	0
“On Forsakenness”	0
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait 1971 (Cr71-11)	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Why Is Buck Mulligan “Plump”?	0
Euclid Considers the Lead in His Pencil	0
No Time to Die	0
Pelt	0
After Reading a Book of Unexpected Metaphors	0
There Are Words: Conveying Magnitude in Contemporary Writing	0
A Christmas Wind	0

Hairdressers	0
Harmonium and the Plain Nonsense of Rhyme	0
“The Reaching that Makes of Falling Flight”: The Psalmic Poetry of Ross Gay	0
Notes on Contributors	0
B52 and Other Poems	0
Voyager Poems	0
Euclid Glasses Hellroaring	0
The Sisters Gregg	0
From Rhythm to Candor: How Dimmesdale Becomes Cicero’s Ideal Orator	0
The Derelicts in the New England Mountains	0
Bereft Song	0
Days	0
Lament	0
With One Eye Closed	0
History and the Self in Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.”	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Rhyme #4: Rhyme Drops a Hint	0
“Art Has Therefore Its Law”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson on Walt Whitman’s “Disfigurement”	0
Jack Gilbert Looking Back on Long Life	0
Ending The Dry Spell: Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia	0
Ever More, Lord Giant	0
Between Two Worlds: The In-between Aesthetics of Arnold Bennett in Anna of the Five Towns	0
Van Gogh’s Weaver Series: A Pictorial Reworking of Silas Marner	0
Supermarket Storm	0
Gilt	0
The Prisoner of Hirta (1738)	0
All Souls’ Night	0
“A Gesture and a Pose”: Hawthorne, Eliot, and the Aesthetics of Detachment	0
Crime in a Box	0
A Pacifist’s Decima	0
Shakespeare’s Blank Verse: An Alternative History	0
Notes on Contributors	0
“I am not what I am”: Liminality as the Existential Terrain of Twelfth Night	0
A Wake a Wave	0
The Mockingbird	0
Virgae	0
“Butler’s Doubtful Heroism”	0
February Fox	0
Notes on Contributors	0
“No Fixed Image”: Richard Wilbur’s Metaphoric Abundance	0
Uncertainty Principle	0
Dilapidations	0
When I Look Up	0
Some Settling May Occur	0
Treatise: Toward a Theory of Silence in Modernist American Poetry	0
Requiem for Margie, a dog I loved without conflict	0
Notes on Contributors	0
A Little Afternoon Music	0
Body	0
The Green Aevum: Deep Time and Useful Fictions between Frank Kermode, Edmund Spenser, and Ed Roberson	0
The Prophet	0
Going Down Slow	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Redeeming Lysimachus: The Miracle of Conversion in Pericles	0
The Textual Presence of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man in the Juvenila of the Brontë Siblings	0
The Exile	0
Lowcountry	0
Doctor Syntax and the Erotics of the Picturesque	0
In Lieu of a Handshake	0
873 Beacon	0
Find A Face	0
The Curator as Oracle: A Guide to The Harlem Gallery	0
Rewilding	0