Sincerity’s Shadow: Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century American PoetryHarvard University Press, 2004/02/17 - 244 ページ In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. |
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... effects " that give form to poetry's explo- ration of self . In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich , Lord Byron and Anne Sexton , John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop ...
... effects , the often unintended consequences of a poetic commitment to self - expression . Both the passage from Coleridge's " Dejection : An Ode " and the ques- tions of sincerity it raises engage larger Romantic concerns about self ...
... least tempo- rarily , less important . This leveling effect of the idea of self - consciousness is to some extent a drawback : because any poem can be understood ac- cording to the way it engages the paradoxes of self INTRODUCTION 11.
... effect also has the benefit of allowing us to see these familiar poets with a freshness made possible by the abandonment of some of our habitual cat- egories . My emphasis on historical continuities is not meant to imply that the ...
... effects of acts of self - conscious- ness directed elsewhere ; poetry that is a map of productive and frequently beautiful failures of self - expression , or — because poetry is the place of sudden reversals — failures to avoid self ...