Title: The poetics of disappointment
First published: 1999
Description: "The Poetics of Disappointment offers nothing less than a complete revision of our understanding of romantic poetry. By examining the lineage of Wordsworth, Shelley, Stevens, and Ashbery, Quinney challenges Harold Bloom's identification of major romantic poems as "crisis lyrics" and questions his idea that the disappointment these poets explore is compensated by their celebration of a heroic self.

Rather, Quinney argues, the form of disappointment examined by the romantic poet often finds him bewildered and oppressed, in a state beyond the simple failure of literary ambition or romantic love."--BOOK JACKET.

"Drawing on the psychological insights of Freud and Klein and on the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Quinney sees in her paradigm of disappointment a sophisticated representation of self that goes beyond mere pathos or melancholia. The history of romantic and postromantic poetry, she finds, is not a history of ambitious self-assertion but a collective testimony of chagrin over the broken promises of the self."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American poetry, Disappointment in literature, English poetry, Frustration in literature, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Poetry, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Poetry, Self in literature, Poetry, collections, Self (Philosophy) in literature, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Déception dans la littérature, Poésie américaine, Poésie, Aspect psychologique, Frustration dans la littérature, Moi (Philosophie) dans la littérature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Engels, Gedichten, Romantiek, Teleurstelling, English, Languages & Literatures, English Literature
Places: English-speaking countries
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: PR585.D57 Q56 1999