Invention of Evening - Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Miller is Associate Professor of English at Yale University. Klappentext Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this development. The tradition of evening poetry runs from the idyllic settings of Virgil to the urban twilights of T. S. Eliot, and flourished in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. In fresh readings of familiar Romantic poems, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time and to associate it with subtle movements of thought and perception. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works, and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express. Zusammenfassung In fresh readings of Keats! Shelley! Coleridge and others! Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works! and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The pre-history of Romantic time; 2. Coleridge's lyric 'moment'; 3. Wordsworth's evening voluntaries; 4. Shelley's 'woven hymns of night and day'; 5. Keats and the 'Luxury of Twilight'; 6. Later inventions.

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• Authors: Christopher R. Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123495
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12349-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Art & design styles: Romanticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets