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The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics
About this book
This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of 'life' in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory. Is poetry alive for the Romantic poets? If so, how? Does 'life' always mean 'life'? In a range of essays from a variety of complementary perspectives, a number of major Romantic poets are examined in detail. The fate of Romantic conceptions of 'life' in later poetry also receives attention. Through, for examples, a revision of Blake's relationship to so-called rationalism, a renewed examination of Wordsworth's fascination with country graveyards, an exploration of Shelley's concept of survival, and a discussion of the notions of 'life' in Byron, Kierkegaard, and Mozart, this volume opens up new and exciting terrain in Romantic poetry's relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Blake’s Spiritual Body
- 2 Gray, Wordsworth, and the Poetry of Ordinary Life
- 3 Wordsworth and the Life of a Subject
- 4 The Romantic Life of the Self
- 5 Fragments of an Interrupted Life: Keats, Blanchot, and the Gift of Death
- 6 Poetry as Reanimation in Shelley
- 7 The Profligate Catalogue: Don Juan, Don Giovanni, and the Reproduction of Life
- 8 AfterNach: Life’s Posthumous Life in Later-Modernist American Poetry
- Contributors
- Index