02932nam 2200625 450 991082868310332120200520144314.00-19-156432-X(CKB)3710000000622997(EBL)4700170(MiAaPQ)EBC4700170(Au-PeEL)EBL4700170(CaPaEBR)ebr11272759(OCoLC)960164197(EXLCZ)99371000000062299720161012h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierOn form poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word /Angela LeightonOxford, England :Oxford University Press,2007.20071 online resource (299 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-955193-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 1. Form's Matter: A Retrospective; 2. Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes; 3. Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism; 4. Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-forming Style; 5. Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics; 6. Just a Word: On Woolf; 7. Yeats's Feet; 8. Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs; 9. W. S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear; 10. Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher; 11. Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson; 12. Nothing, but: An Afterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YOn Form assesses both the legacy of Victorian aestheticism and the nature of the literary. It tracks the development of the word 'form' since the Romantics and offers readings of, among others, Tennyson, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath. Original readings of poetry are combined with a powerful argument about the nature of aesthetic pleasure.English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismAesthetics, Modern19th centuryEnglish poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterary formKnowledge, Theory of, in literaturePoeticsEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Aesthetics, ModernEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.Literary form.Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.Poetics.821.009Leighton Angela1954-152658MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828683103321On form3976237UNINA