04206nam 2200769Ia 450 991080834840332120200520144314.00-7914-8397-51-4237-4365-2(CKB)1000000000458783(OCoLC)461441790(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579234(SSID)ssj0000220384(PQKBManifestationID)11199365(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220384(PQKBWorkID)10143631(PQKB)11379054(OCoLC)62750492(MdBmJHUP)muse6228(Au-PeEL)EBL3407811(CaPaEBR)ebr10579234(OCoLC)923409070(DE-B1597)684046(DE-B1597)9780791483978(MiAaPQ)EBC3407811(EXLCZ)99100000000045878320040205d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe perversity of poetry romantic ideology and the popular male poet of genius /Dino Franco Felluga1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (221 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6300-1 0-7914-6299-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Diagnosing Genius -- Romanticism’S Last Minstrel -- Byron’s Spectropoetics and Revolution -- Poetry and Pathology -- Coda -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexOnce the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.English poetryMale authorsHistory and criticismPopular literatureGreat BritainHistory and criticismEnglish poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)RomanticismGreat BritainMasculinity in literatureGenius in literatureMen in literatureEnglish poetryMale authorsHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.English poetryHistory and criticism.Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)RomanticismMasculinity in literature.Genius in literature.Men in literature.821/.7099286Felluga Dino Franco1966-1668178MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808348403321The perversity of poetry4028594UNINA