Majestic Indolence : English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art.

By: Spiegelman, WillardMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195357592Subject(s): Aesthetics, British -- 19th century | Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Romanticism -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Majestic Indolence : English Romantic Poetry and the Work of ArtDDC classification: 821/.709 LOC classification: PR590 -- .S66 1995ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Editions and Abbreviations -- 1 "Majestic Indolence": The Progress of a Trope -- 2 Wordsworth at Work and Play -- 3 Coleridge and Dejection -- 4 Keats's Figures of Indolence -- 5 States of Possession: Shelley's Versions of Pastoral -- 6 Our American Cousins -- Appendix A: Shelley's Last Lyrics -- Appendix B: The Text of Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of interest in literary formalism, aesthetics, and the pastoral genre. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," Coleridge's "dejection" and torpor, Shelley's pastoral dolce far niente, and Keats's "delicious...indolence" are seen as individual manifestations of a common theme. Spiegelman argues that the trope of indolence originated in the religious, philosophical, psychological, and economic discourses from the middle ages to the late eighteenth century. In particular, the years surrounding the French revolution are marked by the rich variety of experiments conducted by these poets on this topic. Countering recent politically/ideologically motivated literary theory, Spiegelman looks, instead, at how the poems work. He argues for aesthetic appreciation and critique, which, he feels, the Romantic pastoral begs for in its celebration of nature and the sublime. The book concludes with Spiegelman following the Romantic legacy and its transformation into America (in the form of Whitman), and, further, into the twentieth century (in Frost's poems).
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Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Editions and Abbreviations -- 1 "Majestic Indolence": The Progress of a Trope -- 2 Wordsworth at Work and Play -- 3 Coleridge and Dejection -- 4 Keats's Figures of Indolence -- 5 States of Possession: Shelley's Versions of Pastoral -- 6 Our American Cousins -- Appendix A: Shelley's Last Lyrics -- Appendix B: The Text of Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of interest in literary formalism, aesthetics, and the pastoral genre. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," Coleridge's "dejection" and torpor, Shelley's pastoral dolce far niente, and Keats's "delicious...indolence" are seen as individual manifestations of a common theme. Spiegelman argues that the trope of indolence originated in the religious, philosophical, psychological, and economic discourses from the middle ages to the late eighteenth century. In particular, the years surrounding the French revolution are marked by the rich variety of experiments conducted by these poets on this topic. Countering recent politically/ideologically motivated literary theory, Spiegelman looks, instead, at how the poems work. He argues for aesthetic appreciation and critique, which, he feels, the Romantic pastoral begs for in its celebration of nature and the sublime. The book concludes with Spiegelman following the Romantic legacy and its transformation into America (in the form of Whitman), and, further, into the twentieth century (in Frost's poems).

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