The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s: A Period of Doubt

✍ Scribed by David Stewart (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide range of poets, including the poetry of the literary annuals, Letitia Landon, Felicia Hemans, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hood and John Clare, placing their work in the light of new research into the conditions of the literary market. In turn, it uses that culture to open up wider theoretical issues relating to literary form, book history, print culture, gender and periodisation. The period’s doubt about poetry’s place in culture and its capacity to last prompted a dazzling range of creative experiments that reimagined the metrical, material and commercial forms of poetry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (David Stewart)....Pages 1-18
‘The Genius of the Times’: Sales, Forms, and Periods (David Stewart)....Pages 19-63
‘Infinite Profit in a Little Book’: Ephemerality and the Annuals (David Stewart)....Pages 65-90
‘A Labyrinth of Difficulties and Distinctions’: Landon, Darley, Browning (David Stewart)....Pages 91-125
‘A Fatal Gift’: Formal Apparitions in Hemans and Beddoes (David Stewart)....Pages 127-160
‘The Proper Pathetic Face’: Hunt, Reynolds, Hood, Praed (David Stewart)....Pages 161-197
A Living Doubt: Clare and Hartley (David Stewart)....Pages 199-225
Conclusion: From Byron to Tennyson (David Stewart)....Pages 227-239
Back Matter ....Pages 241-269

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature

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