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Online journal prints Rudy essay

KOKOMO, Ind.—An essay by Indiana University of Kokomo Professor of English John Rudy appears in the February edition of the online journal Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS, www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/buddhism).

Sponsored by the University of Maryland and Loyola University in Chicago, RCPS is an internationally renowned venue for the publication of articles on Romanticism and a pioneering effort in the field of scholarly refereed online journals. A veteran author on romantic literature of the 19th century, Rudy said his inclusion in the RCPS was his first experience in having his writing submitted, critiqued, and published all via the Internet.

Rudy’s essay is titled, “Shelley’s Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in ‘A Defence of Poetry’ and Ode to the West Wind.” In the article, Rudy offers “a Zen Buddhist reading” of two works by English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). “Art for Shelley is a journey from selfhood . . . to full personhood,” Rudy wrote. “The method of this journey is not [the artist’s] self-affirmation or self-projection, but self-emptying exposure to a prior Buddhistic oneness with all beings . . . an ‘origin’ dislocated in time and space yet

. . . accessible through poetry as a mode of spiritual practice.”

Rudy is writing his fourth book, an examination of Zen and literary experience.