Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De QuinceyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - Всего страниц: 301 In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography--especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory. |
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... seen in Johnson's Lives a curiosity about the life of the poet akin to his own unpublished endeavors ; he might well have praised Johnson's interest in the aesthetics of epitaphs as adumbrating his own Essay upon Epitaphs ; he might have ...
... seen Shakspeare ! For my part , I would give a great deal not to have seen him . . . . It is always fortunate for ourselves and others , when we are prevented from exchanging admiration for knowledge . The splendid vision that in youth ...
... seen strange faces of calamity " ) , Moore slight , Coleridge sluggish ; Hunt says of him- self , “ I live too much out of this world . ” The geographic remoteness of the poetic community ( Moore is seen in Paris , Keats on his way to ...
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