On Form Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word

Name: On Form Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word
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ISBN: 9780199290604

ISBN-10: 0199290601

ISBN-13: 9780199290604

Edition: 2007

Authors: Angela Leighton

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What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of,among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for…

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List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English




Form's Matter: A Retrospective



Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes



Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism



Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-forming Style



Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics



Just a Word: On Woolf



Yeats's Feet



Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs



W. S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear



Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher



Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson



Nothing, but: An Afterword


Bibliography


Index