The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of GeniusSUNY Press, 2005/01/01 - 208 ページ Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, Poetry makes nothing happen. In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry s marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period s two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott s poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron s, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen. |
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... King one of his greatest accomplishments . And yet , the romance poetry of Byron , Scott , and Tennyson is not as well repre- sented in contemporary scholarship as the lyric poetry of William Wordsworth , Samuel Coleridge , John Keats ...
... King one of his greatest accomplishments . And yet , the romance poetry of Byron , Scott , and Tennyson is not as well repre- sented in contemporary scholarship as the lyric poetry of William Wordsworth , Samuel Coleridge , John Keats ...
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... King . At the same time , I distinguish my analysis of generic change from certain branches of Marxist theory by contesting McKeon's claim that " [ i ] t is first of all not method but history that is dialectical " ( 420 ) . My point ...
... King . At the same time , I distinguish my analysis of generic change from certain branches of Marxist theory by contesting McKeon's claim that " [ i ] t is first of all not method but history that is dialectical " ( 420 ) . My point ...
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... King George IV's visit to Scotland , illustrating how Scott used the romance to defend the status quo and to imagine a contemporary Britain reinvigorated by the virility of its own super- seded past . The periodical reviewers responded ...
... King George IV's visit to Scotland , illustrating how Scott used the romance to defend the status quo and to imagine a contemporary Britain reinvigorated by the virility of its own super- seded past . The periodical reviewers responded ...
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... King as a response to the ensuing dialectical injunction : realize ( be like the novel ) but idealize ( be " poetic " ) . The Idylls attempted to reconcile the contradictions inherent in the dialectic by translating fears of the ...
... King as a response to the ensuing dialectical injunction : realize ( be like the novel ) but idealize ( be " poetic " ) . The Idylls attempted to reconcile the contradictions inherent in the dialectic by translating fears of the ...
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Diagnosing Genius The Tropic Body and the constitution of the Man of Letters | 13 |
Romanticisms Last Minstrel Scott Ideological Fetishes and the Technology of the Book | 33 |
Byrons Spectropoetics and Revolution | 71 |
Poetry and Pathology | 105 |
Tennysons Idylls Pure Poetry and the Market | 143 |
Notes | 163 |
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