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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Romantic poetry"”.
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Reweaving the Rainbow: Science in Romantic Poetry
Contrary to popular belief, the Romantic poets were not anti-scientific thinkers. Their poems, both major and minor, are heavily infused with the scientific knowledge of the period, a time marked by monumental advances in British chemistry and geology. Though they all asserted at times that there …
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Romantic Languor: Images of Passivity in Romantic Poetry
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetry is filled with images of passivity to higher forces. Most common is the figure of the reclining poet, who invites inspiration or mystical, visionary experiences by relaxing mind and body and allowing wise, benevolent powers in nature or the
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Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry
"Creative writers of the English Romantic period often felt the allure of India, for India ""stirred"" their Imagination. This dissertation explores the question Why? through analyzing historical phenomena like England's colonization of India and the Oriental Renaissance, through considering the …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
… ghost in Byron’s ‘The Siege of Corinth’, Romantic poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by supernatural beings coming into contact and often conversing with humans. In doing so, earthly and unearthly interlocutors are faced with the pressing problem of how to communicate across the …
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Geological bodies: Form and process in romantic poetry and geology
“Geological Bodies: Form and Process in Romantic Poetry and Geology” considers the impact of geological discoveries on Romantic subjectivity. Specifically, it examines Romantic narratives of the self in the context of geological discoveries that called attention to humans’ connection to the earth’s …
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The imagery of time and season in the German Baroque and Romantic poetry
… categories consistently and interprets Baroque poetry within the framework of a continuous literary-historical tradition. To account for the origin of decisive formative principles, he cites lyrical impulses already apparent, in his view, in ancient Germanic poetry. At the same time he looks …
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Sir William Jones and Representations of Hinduism in British Poetry, 1784-1812
… examines the representations of Hinduism in Romantic poetry from 1784 to 1812, using as case studies the poetry of Sir William Jones, William Blake, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The study argues that Jones’ sympathetic and syncretic representations of Hinduism in his nine ‘Hymns’ …
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The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity
… changes in the form and content of Arabic poetry occurred rapidly in the first half of the twentieth century, resulting in the development of free verse and prose poetry as well as the jettison of traditional requirements including end-stopped two-hemistich long lines, strict adherence to …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
In Romantic Migrations: Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions, Michael Wiley argues that it was during the Romantic era that ‘the concept of migration acquired the complex semantic and ideological range familiar to the twenty-first century’. This dissertation builds on Wiley’s insight to …
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The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857)
… Derozio drew upon orientalist scholarship and Romantic poetry to fashion himself as the bard of a fallen India. By contrast, the poet and scholar Muhammad Husain Azad, a product of the twilight of Mughal Delhi’s Urdu poetic culture, attempted to rewrite the poetics of Urdu to focus on …
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"A brilliant burst of botanical imagination": Proserpina and the nineteenth-century evolution of myth
… the Wordsworthian nature philosophy of Victorian Romantics—or the scientific knowledge of the “sexual system” and its link to industrial, technological science. Drawing upon historicist myth criticism, I trace the nineteenth-century evolution of the Proserpina myth into botanical discourse within …
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Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems
… possible precedents: so-called ‘pre-logical’ poetry, the associationism of Romantic poetry, Leaves of Grass, Rimbaud’s poems, Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés, etc. the work of European avant-garde poets of the 1910s (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Marinetti, et al.) is considered in detail, and the supposed …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… as Murray Krieger’s <em>The New Apologists for Poetry</em>, and the last part of William K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks’s <em>Literary Criticism: A Short History</em>, leave Burke out of account, because of the difficulty of assimilating him to the well-defined categories of modern criticism. In …
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Kjerulf and Welhaven: the advent of romantic Lieder and poetry in nineteenth-century Norway
This thesis traces the development of the romantic Lied and poetry in Norway in the first half of the nineteenth century, a development driven by by two closely intertwined figures, the composer Halfdan Kjerulf (1815-1868) and the poet Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven (1807-1873). Welhaven was …
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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation
… the extraordinary cohesion of John Clare’s poetry through his violent reordering of subjectivity — what I call the annihilative turn — by way of disability studies and ecocriticism in his pre-asylum and asylum-era poetry. Disability studies allows Clare’s mental non-normativity to be …
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The laws of verse : the poetry of Alice Meynell and its literary contexts, 1875-1923
… and technical procedures in the field of poetry than has heretofore been available. Examining select specimens of Meynell’s verse in the light of prosodic theories current at the time both she and her Modernist contemporaries were writing further allows us to see, in place of the familiar …
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"Measured Feet and Jingling Lines" : The Poetry and Poetic Attitudes of Nathaniel Hawthorne
<p>A study of Hawthorne's poetry and poetic attitudes encompasses three separate but integrally related areas. First, few people realize that Hawthorne wrote verse, and no other investigation of the nature and significance of the meager surviving body of this poetry has yet been undertaken. But …
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The fiends that plague thee thus: An examination of gender and the role it plays in Coleridge’s <i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>
<p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge was, and remains today, one of the most important literary figures in history, and his poem <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner </i>continues to be one of the most widely read pieces of literature in schools across the world. When it was first published, the poem was ahead …
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The Fallen World in Coleridge’s Poetry
… the Fallen World motif to emerge in Coleridge’s poetry. A Fall presupposes a standard from which one has been separated downwards. Primarily, it is understood as man’s separation from perfection and wholeness. Consequences of a Fall are evil in all its manifestations, as well as repercussions on …
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