Unfettering Poetry : Fancy in British Romanticism.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781403982834Subject(s): English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Experimental poetry, English -- History and criticism | Fantasy in literature | Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century | Romanticism -- Great Britain | Visions in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unfettering Poetry : Fancy in British RomanticismDDC classification: 821.7 LOC classification: PN849.G74PN1010-PN15Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Poetry Fetter'd Fetters the Human Race -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Fanciphobia: A History of Skepticism about the Fancy -- Chapter 2 Lyric Subjects in Romantic Poetry -- Chapter 3 Cursory Observations on Poetry and Cheerfulness (with an excursion on rhyming tetrameter couplets) -- Part II -- Chapter 4 A Poetry of Mind: The Della Cruscans, Mary Robinson, and the Fancy at the Time of the French Revolution and Beyond -- Chapter 5 "Affectionate Eternity": Leigh Hunt and the Poetics and Politics of the Fancy -- Chapter 6 The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans -- Part III -- Chapter 7 The Fancy: From Poetry to Boxing and Back -- Chapter 8 William Hazlitt's Poetics of the Fancy in His Select British Poets: A Cockney Anthology, I -- Chapter 9 Select British Poets, II: Fanciful Readings of Canonical Romanticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the 'Fancy' evident in poetry written during the British Romantic period. These poetics, Robinson demonstrates, are an early nineteenth-century version of what will become the visionary, experimental, open-form poetics of the twentieth-century.
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