Jonathan Bate
- Published in print:
- 1989
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129943
- eISBN:
- 9780191671883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129943.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
In Poetical Sketches, Blake's first collection, Blake attempted to search for a perspective through imitating several different models across both the 18th century and the Elizabethan era. In this ...
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In Poetical Sketches, Blake's first collection, Blake attempted to search for a perspective through imitating several different models across both the 18th century and the Elizabethan era. In this collection, Shakespeare's presence was made known explicitly, whereas in Blake's later and more mature works, Shakespeare was to be integrated implicitly and even transformed. In ‘To Spring’, the collection's first poem, Blake exhibits his debt to the Elizabethan verse wherein he is evidently attempting to imitate Shakespeare and his contemporaries' lyrical language. In ‘Fair Elenor’, Blake emulates Shakespeare's Macbeth which plays no small part in the rise of gothic imagination. This chapter is able to identify Blake's works wherein he indicates patronage to Shakespeare.Less
In Poetical Sketches, Blake's first collection, Blake attempted to search for a perspective through imitating several different models across both the 18th century and the Elizabethan era. In this collection, Shakespeare's presence was made known explicitly, whereas in Blake's later and more mature works, Shakespeare was to be integrated implicitly and even transformed. In ‘To Spring’, the collection's first poem, Blake exhibits his debt to the Elizabethan verse wherein he is evidently attempting to imitate Shakespeare and his contemporaries' lyrical language. In ‘Fair Elenor’, Blake emulates Shakespeare's Macbeth which plays no small part in the rise of gothic imagination. This chapter is able to identify Blake's works wherein he indicates patronage to Shakespeare.
Ellen Crowell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625482
- eISBN:
- 9780748652051
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625482.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative ...
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This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognised and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy. As it demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.Less
This book identifies and interprets the longstanding ideological and aesthetic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. It offers a rich comparative examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and American Southern plantation literatures and their respective representations of race and nation, gender and sexuality, region and landscape, and the gothic imagination. Pairing major writers from both traditions, including Maria Edgeworth, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Anne Porter and Elizabeth Bowen, the book shows how this transatlantic dialogue coalesced around questions of power, supremacy and gentility: writers in Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Southern literary traditions recognised and spoke to each other through the discourse of aristocracy. As it demonstrates, from the early nineteenth-century onwards, Irish and Anglo-Southern writers conducted a sustained exploration into constructions of aristocracy through the figure of the dissipated, deviant gentleman (or lady): the dandy. By augmenting literary analysis with a variety of historical, biographical, archival and visual materials, including nineteenth-century trade cards, original letters and twentieth-century photographic portraits, the book offers readers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary illumination of transatlantic modernism.
