Lyric generations
Subtitle: poetry and the novel in the long eighteenth century
By: G. Gabrielle Starr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- 18th century.; Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.
Description: "In Lyric Generations, G. Gabrielle Starr rejects the usual 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 the 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Clarissa and the lyric; title: Modes of absorption : lyric and letter in Behn, Haywood, and Pope; title: Lyric tensions : sympathy, displacement, and self into the mid-century; title: Rhetorical realisms : chiasmus, convention, and lyric; title: The limits of lyric and the space of the novel.