Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem

ISBN-13: 9780198122852 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str.

Michael O'Neill

Opis

This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry that displays awareness of itself as poetry - in the work of the major Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Michael O'Neill's readings freshly illuminate the imaginative distinction of many famous and often-studied poems, and revalue less regarded works. An extended coda looks at some post-Romantic poets, particularly Yeats, Stevens, Auden, and Clampitt, in the light of the book's central theme.

Recenzje

Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem displays a refreshing desire to reassert the value of poetry, a desire to read poetry lovingly as poetry and not simply as another form of discourse caught in the ideological webs. O'Neill broadens the sense of poetry's alertness to itself and to experience. His trust in poetry is affecting, and he communicates that trust feelingly. Embracing poetry rather than debunking it, O'Neill sloughs off the illusion of disillusion and attempts simply to read, to read clearly, and to say what he has read.