LEADER 04349nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910971686103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791483978 010 $a0791483975 010 $a9781423743651 010 $a1423743652 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458783 035 $a(OCoLC)461441790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000220384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199365 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10143631 035 $a(PQKB)11379054 035 $a(OCoLC)62750492 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6228 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407811 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579234 035 $a(OCoLC)923409070 035 $a(DE-B1597)684046 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407811 035 $a(Perlego)2673936 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458783 100 $a20040205d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe perversity of poetry $eromantic ideology and the popular male poet of genius /$fDino Franco Felluga 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791463000 311 08$a0791463001 311 08$a9780791462997 311 08$a0791462994 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tDiagnosing Genius -- $tRomanticism?S Last Minstrel -- $tByron?s Spectropoetics and Revolution -- $tPoetry and Pathology -- $tCoda -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aOnce 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. 606 $aEnglish poetry$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aGenius in literature 606 $aMen in literature 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aGenius in literature. 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a821/.7099286 700 $aFelluga$b Dino Franco$f1966-$01811379 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971686103321 996 $aThe perversity of poetry$94363217 997 $aUNINA