The Invention of Evening

Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-12349-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this development. The tradition of evening poetry runs from the idyllic settings of Virgil to the urban twilights of T. S. Eliot, and flourished in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. In fresh readings of familiar Romantic poems, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time and to associate it with subtle movements of thought and perception. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works, and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Christopher R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. The pre-history of Romantic time; 2. Coleridge's lyric 'moment'; 3. Wordsworth's evening voluntaries; 4. Shelley's 'woven hymns of night and day'; 5. Keats and the 'Luxury of Twilight'; 6. Later inventions.