Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 665 g
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 665 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-812285-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford
In this wide-ranging study Michael O'Neill examines the phenomenon of the `self-conscious poem' - that is, a poem concerned with poetry or, more centrally if often connectedly, a poem that displays awareness of itself as a poem - in the work of the major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The book freshly illuminates many famous lyrics and longer poems and revalues less regarded works such as The Excursion.
For O'Neill, self-consciousness is allied to the new status granted to poetry by the Romantics. His closely attentive readings suggest that self-consciousness in Romantic poetry often accompanies exploration of, even anxiety about, poetry's significance. Yet his emphasis falls on the imaginatively productive ends to which such exploration and anxiety are put. An extended coda looks at the bequest of Romantic self-consciousness to post-Romantic writers; it offers chapters comparing Yeats and Stevens, discussing later Auden's scepticism about poetry, and exploring the affecting intricacies of Amy Clampitt's `Voyages: A Homage to John Keats'. Throughout, O'Neill challenges recent accounts of Romanticism by placing at the centre of his study poetry's imaginative and aesthetic value.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I. The First Generation
- 1.: And I staind the water clear: Blake
- 2.: The words he uttered.: Wordsworth
- 3.: That done in air: Coleridge
- PART 2. The Second Generation
- 4.: A being more intense: Byron
- 5.: The mind which feeds this verse: Shelley (1)
- 6.: The sensitive plant: Evaluation and the Self-Conscious Poem: Shelley (2)
- 7.: The reading of an ever-changing tale: Keats (1)
- 8.: Writing and History in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: Keats (2)
- CODA. The Post-Romantic Self-Conscious Poem
- 9.: Yeats and Stevens: Two Versions of Post-Romantic Self-Consciousness
- 10.: Making and Faking: W. H. Auden
- 11.: The knowledge of contrast, feeling for light and shade: Amy Clampitt's Voyages: A Homage to John Keats
- Biobliography
- Index
