Author: Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth
Publisher: London, Austin
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

View

Book Description

Author: Carl Holliday
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 642

View

Book Description

Author: John Erskine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 374

View

Book Description

Author: Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920

View

Book Description

Author: James Biester
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501741276
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 241

View

Book Description
James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.

Author: G. Gabrielle Starr
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311

View

Book Description
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. "Refreshingly, this impressive study of poetic form does not read the eighteenth century as a slow road to Romanticism, but fleshes out the period with surprising and important new detail."—Times Literary Supplement G. Gabrielle Starr is the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science and a professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience.

Author: Michael Craze
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341

View

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888

View

Book Description

Author: Mr. Lalit Mohan "English Guru"
Publisher: Mr Lalit Mohan "English Guru"
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116

View

Book Description
This book is a collection of 640 plus Multiple Choice Type Questions with elaborated explanations and analysis based on the latest examination-patterns. This book has been written to cater the present needs of the TGT, PGT, NTA-UGC-NET, JRF, SET aspirants.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 844

View

Book Description