Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism - Softcover

Nelson Jr., Lowry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271026596 ISBN 13: 9780271026596

Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

In the vast diversity of Western civilization, poetry has traditions both national and international that span three millennia. To write a coherent critical history of even just lyric poetry would be perhaps beyond human powers, by in his essays Lowry Nelson finds it possible to take soundings--in great epochs of inventiveness and of changing sensibility; in the extremes of expressivity; in the reader's varying fictive role---while setting in appropriate contexts works of such poets as Horace, the early Trabadors, St. John of the Cross, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Leopardi, Baudelaire, and Vayacheslav Ivanov. Each essay has a different scope and emphasis within the apparently limitless range of possibilities. Nelson's arrangement of the essays is chronological, though only roughly so; many issues and examples could be explored in other contexts. Yet there is a presiding view of literature that is commonly designated as comparative, stressing some degree of universality; poets happily transgress frontiers and barriers; one tradition absorbs others in its own way, as in the poetics of Roman and medieval Latin, the Provensals, Petracrch and Petrarchism, Symbolism, and Modernism. Nelson observes only one restriction. He concentrates on lyric poetry, although much that he examines can be applied to other forms.

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Lowry Nelson, Jr., is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Baroque Lyric Poetry and The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (1986) and co-editor of The Garland Library of Medieval Literature.

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• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0271026596
• ISBN 13: 9780271026596
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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