English Romanticism
Preludes and Postludes Essays in Honor of Edwin Graves Wilson
Published on 1. July 1993
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-0-937191-44-6 (ISBN)
Description
The nine essays in this volume take a long view of the Romantic age in England, as is implied by the sub-title. In addition to studies of Keats (`Chapman's Homer', his imagination), Shelley (A Defence of Poetry) and Tennyson (), there are contributions taking a longer view, comparing Paradise Lost with The Prelude, examining W.B. Yeats's attitude to Coleridge and the decadents, and extending the focus to music to find Wagnerian romanticism in Kate Chopin'sThe Awakening. Essays on improving the text and the audience for literary lectures complete the collection.
Contributors: JOHN A. ALFORD, RICHARD BRANTLEY, JAMES BUNN, D. ALLEN CARROLL, JANET BINKLEY ERWIN, RICHARD FALLIS, KELLEY GRIFFITH, DAVID HADLEY, DONALD SCHOONMAKER, R.A. SHOAF.
Contributors: JOHN A. ALFORD, RICHARD BRANTLEY, JAMES BUNN, D. ALLEN CARROLL, JANET BINKLEY ERWIN, RICHARD FALLIS, KELLEY GRIFFITH, DAVID HADLEY, DONALD SCHOONMAKER, R.A. SHOAF.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 b/w.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-937191-44-6 (9780937191446)
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Persons
John A. Alford taught at Michigan State University, the University of California-Irvine, the University of Virginia, Leeds University (U.K.) and elsewhere. His books and articles cover a wide range of subjects from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from medieval rhetoric to modern critical theory. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Content
Improving the text, John A. Alford; in/en - the syllable of sin in "Paradise Lost" and the syllable of men in "The Prelude", 12-14, R.A. Shoaf; public lectures and private societies - expounding literature and the arts in Romantic London, David Hadley; Keats's "Chapman's Homer" and the vagaries of identification, D. Allen Carroll; the bittersweet of Keats's liberal imagination, Donald Schoonmaker; the "True Utility" of Shelley's method in "A Defence of Poetry", James Bunn; evangelical principles of Tennyson's "In Memoriam"; tales of an ancient mariner - W.B. Yeats on the decadents, Richard Fallis; Wagnerian Romanticism in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening".