The poetic self in the English ode, 1740-1820

"This dissertation focuses on the history of the ode from about 1740 to 1820 as represented in works of Thomas Gray, William Collins, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats. With the rise of New Criticism in the 1930s, genre criticism has been neglected. The importance of the individual poem has led to ignoring the context or labeling process of poems which share a group of common characteristics in form and purpose. The English ode in particular is a much neglected genre. Yet, the so-called masterpieces of the Romantic period, Wordsworth's ""Intimations Ode,"" Coleridge's ""Dejection,"" Keats's ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" are odes, and the Romantics, however experimental they may have been said to be, are very conscious of genre and very cautious about labeling their poems. In nine chapters I trace the poet's Self fashioning in the ode by pairing mid-eighteenth-century odes with Romantic odes. This approach diminishes the gap between two literary periods which have been considered mutually exclusive (the Age of Sensibility and the Romantic Period), and it affirms the centrality of the ode to both the poet of Sensibility and the Romantic poet without solely attributing its use to genius in the case of the latter."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Van de Veire, Heide-Marie Clara Achiel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stillinger, Jack

• Literature, English

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Van de Veire, Heide-Marie Clara Achiel

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114448
(UMI)AAI9114448

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23134