ウィリアム・モリスと詩のコックニー派 : 『グウィネヴィアの弁明とその他の詩』を契機として

• 江澤 美月

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• William Morris and his relation to the Cockney School of Poetry: Evidence from The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

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This article focuses on the aspect of William Morris as a poet, not as a designer. Peter Faulkner explains in his William Morris : The Critical Heritage that The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, Morris’s first volume, was classified as Pre-Raphaelite poetry. However, this article argues that Morris is more properly viewed as one of the successors of the Cockney School of Poetry. 　An article in The Saturday Review criticised the revolution Wordsworth introduced in Lyrical Ballads. Similar to critiques of the “prosaicness” of Pre-Raphaelite painting, the criticism was directed towards the use of vernacular language and the ignorance of poetic diction. Another review in Spectator classified Morris as Cockney School and suggested similarities with Tennyson. A review by Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson’s best friend, demonstrated that the Cockney School was a scornful attribution not only to Keats, but also to Hunt, a promoter of Keats. The reason for the attacks against the Cockney School was due to the reactional conservatism after the Napoleonic War. Not only Hunt, a journalist, but also Keats, a poet, were considered republicans. Besides having contacts with other Cockney School poets, Hunt also associated with Rossetti, a Pre-Raphaelite. Hunt, therefore, was a vital link in the connection between the Cockney School and Pre-Raphaelitism. Although Hunt never reviewed the works of Morris publicly, The Saturday Review criticised the microscopic descriptions which Morris employed in his poems. Hunt noted the same tendency in Keats, and Hunt’s reference to Balthasar Denner, a super-realistic painter, suggests that Morris used this method to make ordinary people visible as Keats did in his poems, and as Wordsworth did in his Lyrical Ballads. This collection of evidence suggests that Morris is more correctly classified as belonging to the Cockney School rather than amongst the Pre-Raphaelites.

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• 人文・自然研究

  人文・自然研究 15 39-53, 2021-03-25

  一橋大学全学共通教育センター

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• CRID: 1390290699857779328
• NII論文ID: 120007026900
• NII書誌ID: AA12204025
• DOI: 10.15057/71651
• HANDLE: 10086/71651
• ISSN: 18824625
• 本文言語コード: ja
• データソース種別:
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  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles
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