Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth CenturyJohns Hopkins University Press, 18 Şub 2004 - 312 sayfa Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that novelists such as Richardson, Haywood, Behn, and others, while drawing upon earlier lyric conventions, ushered in a new language of self-expression and community which profoundly affected the aesthetic goals of lyric poets. Examining the works of Cowper, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats in light of their competitive dialogue with the novel, Starr advances a literary history that considers formal characteristics as products of historical change. In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice. |
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... hearts.2 She seeks consensus - feeling - with , a concord of heart and mind - but as the novel progresses , at moments of emotional intensity , true correspon- dence seems impossible . Letters fragment and are replaced by relics : the ...
... heart is withered like a ground Which thou dost curse . My thoughts turn round , And make me giddy ; Lord , I fall , Yet call . ( 11.8-12 ) The promise of grace is balanced against internal fragmentation : Lord JESU , hear my heart ...
... heart doth bleed / As many lines as there doth need / To pass itself and all it hath to thee " ( 11. 6-8 ) . The poem is expected to function as a physical intermediary between poet and God . Herbert explicitly figures the poem as a ...
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Clarissa and the Lyric | 15 |
Lyric and Letter in Behn Haywood | 47 |
Sympathy Displacement and Self | 72 |
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Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century G. Gabrielle Starr Sınırlı önizleme - 2015 |
Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century G. Gabrielle Starr Sınırlı önizleme - 2015 |