Writing the poetry of place in Britain, 1700-1807 : self in landscape
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Writing the poetry of place in Britain, 1700-1807 : self in landscape
（Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature）
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A. This is the first book systematically to examine the intrusion of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain in the long eighteenth century.
B. The argument of the book proceeds from the premise that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, stimulate original writers to overstep those bounds, resulting in verse that engages issues and energies far deeper than those of pictorial description.
C. The book makes a strong claim for the autobiographical emphasis of much eighteenth-century poetry of place.
D. The book hews to close readings as the soundest way to identify the often subtle shifts of tone and structure that betray the workings of agendae that may be operating under cover of conventional landscape poetry.
E. The book supplements traditionally aesthetic and political readings of eighteenth-century British landscape poetry, suggesting not only that the autobiographical impulse is a distinctive and innovative feature of much great eighteenth-century poetry of place but also that the correlation of self and place, a topic of current interest to humanist geographers, is powerfully manifested in the landscape poetry of this period.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Pervious Landscapes: Pope, Wordsworth, Cowper
Chapter One The Weather Underground: Pope in "Ode on Solitude"
Chapter Two Bearing It Away: "The Solitary Reaper"
Chapter Three "What Can It Signify?": Finding the Subject in "On the Ice-Islands Floating in the Germanic Ocean"
II. Landscapes of Loss: Duck, Goldsmith, Crabbe
Chapter Four "Lost, drown'd": The Problem of the Imagination in "The Thresher's Labour"
Chapter Five Road to Nowhere: The Poetics of Absence in "The Deserted Village"
Chapter Six Lost Cause: The Village and the Place of the Manners Tribute
III. Vanishings: Thomson, Gray, Smith
Chapter Seven "Conning Nature's Book": Body, Soul, Self, and Poetic Vision in The Seasons
Chapter Eight Vanishing Point: Gray in the Eton Ode
Chapter Nine "Bearing the Cor'se to Land": Beachy Head
Epilogue
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