Imaginary Biographies - Misreading the Lives of the Poets

Zusammenfassung Argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers in post-Enlightenment English poetry constitutes a genre, a battleground for two central conflicts: the confrontation of the self-sufficient Romantic imagination with the brute fact of external precursors; and the participation in, and simultaneous deflation of, Romantic idealism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductionpart oneChapter One: John Milton in William Blake's Milton: A Poem in Two Books (1804)Chapter Two: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Triumph of Life (1822)Chapter Three: Sappho in Algernon Charles Swinburne's Anactoria (1866)part twoChapter Four: W.H. Auden and William Butler Yeats in James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (1982)Chapter Five: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in Paul Muldoon's Madoc: A Mystery (1990)Chapter Six: Miguel de Cervantes, James Joyce and Homer in John Ashbery's Sleepers Awake (1995) and Memories of Imperialism (2000)codaChapter Seven: Thucydides, Sappho, and Antonin Artaud in Anne Carson's TV Men (2000)Epilogue Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Klock, Klock Geoff
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9780826428028
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-2802-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Continuum Literary Studies; Continuum Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900