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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... points of communication. From the impasse they create comes the necessity of speech. In this epistolary world, limits of subjectivity appear as limits of sensation, and the letter emerges as an attempt to cross these bounds. It carries ...
... (euphuism or preciosité, for example). As Wlad Godzich and Jeffrey Kittay point out, in the modern world prose comes to occupy the discursive position of In unformed ''matter,'' while verse seems to be the essence 12 Lyric Generations.
... points out that Richardson published Sidney's sonnets in 1724 and knew (and quoted) Herrick, Herbert, and Donne as well.∂ In fact, there was a of available models for emotional intensity, models limited or affected by genre in ...
... point at which this kind of affective claim for lyric is codified in criticism.≤≠ Robert Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (Latin 1753, English 1787), a landmark text in this history, chronicles the emotional terms ...
... point to be more fully explored in Chapter 3). However, as Lowth notes, ''in Hebrew poetry .. . the free spirit is hurried along. ... Frequently, instead of disguising the secret feelings of the author, it lays them quite open to public ...
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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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