Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth CenturyJHU Press, 01.11.2015 - 312 Seiten 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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... ) sentimental ending of the kind Richardson refused, in effect satisfying the demands Richardson's readers insistently, but fruitlessly, fail (''for you are my own made. In reading ballad against novel we may reconstruct the Introduction 5.
... kind of poetry: ''Drop entirely the measures and numbers, and transpose and invert the order of the words, and in this unadorned manner ... peruse the passage. If there be really in it a true poetical spirit, all your inversion and ...
... kind of intimacy based on imaginative communication, and his work is foundational because of the problems he is compelled to address. His scenes of estrangement lay the ground for romantic poems of isolation (like ''Ode to a Nightingale ...
... kind of picture of interiority letters can give, but without the limitations of a letter's single vision; similarly, romantic poetry often subsumes epistolary dialogue into the imagined space of colloquy (''This Lime-Tree Bower,'' The ...
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Lyric and Letter in Behn Haywood and Pope | 47 |
Sympathy Displacement and Self into the Midcentury | 72 |
Chiasmus Convention and Lyric | 101 |
5 The Limits of Lyric and the Space of the Novel | 125 |
6 The Novel and the New Lyricism | 159 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 293 |
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