Poetic Form and British Romanticism - Couverture rigide

Curran, Stuart

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195040198 ISBN 13 : 9780195040197

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1986

Synopsis

Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Ranging with assurance across that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that Romanticism, far from being indifferent or hostile to the received forms of literature as popular caricature has held, was actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit logical of ideological value. Whether in their employment of fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance that gave the movement its name, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to accord with a democratic, secular and skeptical ethos, a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

`Throughout, Curran's explications of major as well as of lesser-known poems in each genre are always interesting and often brilliant, the range of his learning astonishing.' `The compression of his presentation is astonishing, and the overview is stunning ... Its learning, insight, and judiciousness make it, for the serious student, by far the outstanding survey of British Romantic poetry yet written ... It is a book to be bought, read, and reread frequently.' Keats-Shelley Journal

`Poetic Form and British Romanticism achieves a high level of literary scholarship. The notes, which in many cases amount to sizeable supplementary essays, are far removed from the snippety odds and ends appended to some modern critical studies.' Notes and Queries

'Curran provides a concise history of Romantic poetry which is also notable for lucid critical discussions of a large number of poems.' English Studies, Volume 72, Number 6, December 1991

Présentation de l'éditeur

Curran here confronts the popular stereotype that the Romantics either accepted or rejected previously established literary genres. He proposes rather that they adapted traditional poetic forms to suit their own democratic, secular, and sceptical ethos. This artistic merger of traditional genre with the tenets of Romanticism was a fruitful one, not only resulting in the revival of the ode and the sonnet, but also leading to the imaginative rethinking of major forms like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance which gave the movement its name.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195040198
• ISBN 13: 9780195040197
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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