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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454872503321

Autore

Forbes Deborah

Titolo

Sincerity's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : self-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry / / Deborah Forbes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-03710-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 244 p.)

Disciplina

821/.709353

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Postmodernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries

Romanticism - English-speaking countries

Sincerity in literature

Self in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Deborah Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy.