LEADER 04174nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910807434703321 005 20230617041818.0 010 $a0-674-03710-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037106 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805488 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050690 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246190 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186311 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246190 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10180771 035 $a(PQKB)10209441 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300630 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328807 035 $a(OCoLC)923112464 035 $a(DE-B1597)574493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300630 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805488 100 $a20030709d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSincerity's shadow$b[electronic resource] $eself-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry /$fDeborah Forbes 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 244 p.) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-01188-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-239) and index. 327 $aIntroduction 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 330 $aIn 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. 330 $bIn a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," poets in English have sought to represent a "sincere" self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures. Self-representation never achieves final sincerity, but rather produces an array of "sincerity effects" that give form to poetry's exploration of self. 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, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSelf-consciousness (Awareness) in literature 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aRomanticism$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aSincerity in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSelf-consciousness (Awareness) in literature. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aSincerity in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a821/.709353 700 $aForbes$b Deborah$0595980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807434703321 996 $aSincerity's shadow$9991581 997 $aUNINA