Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

AvMichael O'Neill,University of Durham) O'Neill, Michael (Professor of English, Professor of English

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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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Utgivningsdatum1997-07-10
Mått145 x 224 x 25 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198122852

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A helpful chapter on Wordsworth pursues the theme of Romantic anxiety about language, and again seeks to halt the deconstructionist mill that would grind everything to ironies of the same size and shape. ... The two chapters on Shelley are also substantial and intriguing. ... Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem is a subtly intriguing, clear-eyed, and always powerfully argued book. It offers a series of cogent, involved discussions around a ltitle-explored aspect of Romantic poetry, and in agile, elegant prose to boot.

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