Tom Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199280780
- eISBN:
- 9780191712890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280780.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter explores a related economy to that discussed in the previous chapter. In this case, not that of the relationships between bullion and paper money, but between the discourses of praise ...
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This chapter explores a related economy to that discussed in the previous chapter. In this case, not that of the relationships between bullion and paper money, but between the discourses of praise and dispraise, the great subjects of Jonson's Epigrams and other writings. This discourse is brought to bear for Coleridge by the figure of Robert Southey, his brother-in-law, and also the Poet Laureate. By arguing that Southey in his laureate writings was more influenced by Jonson's personal and poetic example than has been previously realised (and was, in turn, measured against them by those who thought him a marked falling off from such standards), the chapter argues that Southey forced Coleridge to think, again through the example of Jonson's writing, about the relationships of praise and dispraise, patronage and independence in his own writing life and in Southey's. Central to this debate for Coleridge is Jonson's play, Catiline. The chapter then returns to take up again the model of the poet as heir in its discussion of Hartley Coleridge, Coleridge's eldest child, who, the chapter suggests, came keenly to understand his own relationship with his father through Jonson's poems of paternity. This chapter tries to suggest that contrary to T. S. Eliot's claim — that for too long Jonson had failed to provide a ‘creative stimulus’ to later writers, none of whom since Dryden had offered a ‘living criticism of Jonson's works’ — we can see here writers whose work has been given life by, and has returned it to, Jonson's.Less
This chapter explores a related economy to that discussed in the previous chapter. In this case, not that of the relationships between bullion and paper money, but between the discourses of praise and dispraise, the great subjects of Jonson's Epigrams and other writings. This discourse is brought to bear for Coleridge by the figure of Robert Southey, his brother-in-law, and also the Poet Laureate. By arguing that Southey in his laureate writings was more influenced by Jonson's personal and poetic example than has been previously realised (and was, in turn, measured against them by those who thought him a marked falling off from such standards), the chapter argues that Southey forced Coleridge to think, again through the example of Jonson's writing, about the relationships of praise and dispraise, patronage and independence in his own writing life and in Southey's. Central to this debate for Coleridge is Jonson's play, Catiline. The chapter then returns to take up again the model of the poet as heir in its discussion of Hartley Coleridge, Coleridge's eldest child, who, the chapter suggests, came keenly to understand his own relationship with his father through Jonson's poems of paternity. This chapter tries to suggest that contrary to T. S. Eliot's claim — that for too long Jonson had failed to provide a ‘creative stimulus’ to later writers, none of whom since Dryden had offered a ‘living criticism of Jonson's works’ — we can see here writers whose work has been given life by, and has returned it to, Jonson's.
Jane Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199273607
- eISBN:
- 9780191706301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273607.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Skelton is strongly drawn to define his role in relation to the state. He is equally attracted by alternative formulations of poetic identity: those that locate the poet's authority in his learning, ...
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Skelton is strongly drawn to define his role in relation to the state. He is equally attracted by alternative formulations of poetic identity: those that locate the poet's authority in his learning, his place in a literary tradition, or his claim to divine inspiration. This chapter traces a number of these ideas through analysis of his poetic titles. It will thus identify the two contrasting views that recur throughout Skelton's writing. While the title orator regius locates the poet's authority in his position as the king's spokesman, the titles poet laureate and vates pave the way for viewing the poet's authority as innate.Less
Skelton is strongly drawn to define his role in relation to the state. He is equally attracted by alternative formulations of poetic identity: those that locate the poet's authority in his learning, his place in a literary tradition, or his claim to divine inspiration. This chapter traces a number of these ideas through analysis of his poetic titles. It will thus identify the two contrasting views that recur throughout Skelton's writing. While the title orator regius locates the poet's authority in his position as the king's spokesman, the titles poet laureate and vates pave the way for viewing the poet's authority as innate.
Antonella Braida
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199584628
- eISBN:
- 9780191739095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584628.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, Poetry
This chapter focuses on the role of the artist in the creation of myths of and for the nation in post-unification Italy. In this process, the artist is both legislator and product of his age: the ...
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This chapter focuses on the role of the artist in the creation of myths of and for the nation in post-unification Italy. In this process, the artist is both legislator and product of his age: the celebration of the new common history creates at once the myth of the nation and that of the poeta vate — as the ‘poet laureate’ was called in Italy. In nineteenth-century Italy political unification was accompanied by the consequent task of nation-building; this process turned out to be far more complex than anticipated and involved politicians and intellectuals alike in the common task of producing myths, symbols, and historical narratives for the newborn nation. Italian historians have investigated the strategies used in nineteenth-century Italy to create a sense of belonging to the newborn Italian kingdom. While analysing the new approaches to Dante that emerged from the process of nation-building, the chapter challenges teleological interpretations of ‘ideological’ uses of Dante and leaves space for Italian intellectuals' more complex and individual approaches to his work.Less
This chapter focuses on the role of the artist in the creation of myths of and for the nation in post-unification Italy. In this process, the artist is both legislator and product of his age: the celebration of the new common history creates at once the myth of the nation and that of the poeta vate — as the ‘poet laureate’ was called in Italy. In nineteenth-century Italy political unification was accompanied by the consequent task of nation-building; this process turned out to be far more complex than anticipated and involved politicians and intellectuals alike in the common task of producing myths, symbols, and historical narratives for the newborn nation. Italian historians have investigated the strategies used in nineteenth-century Italy to create a sense of belonging to the newborn Italian kingdom. While analysing the new approaches to Dante that emerged from the process of nation-building, the chapter challenges teleological interpretations of ‘ideological’ uses of Dante and leaves space for Italian intellectuals' more complex and individual approaches to his work.
Dana Greene
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037108
- eISBN:
- 9780252094217
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037108.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, ... and the most moving.” Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books ...
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Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, ... and the most moving.” Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age twenty-three, but it was not until she married and came to the United States in 1948 that she found her poetic voice, helped by the likes of William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Shortly before her death in 1997, the woman who claimed no country as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. This book examines Levertov's interviews, essays, and self-revelatory poetry to discern the conflict and torment she both endured and created in her attempts to deal with her own psyche, her relationships with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and the times in which she lived. This book is the first complete biography of Levertov, a woman who claimed she did not want a biography, insisting that it was her work that she hoped would endure. And yet she confessed that her poetry in its various forms—lyric, political, natural, and religious—derived from her life experience. Although a substantial body of criticism has established Levertov as a major poet of the later twentieth century, the book represents the first attempt to set her poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.Less
Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) “the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, ... and the most moving.” Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age twenty-three, but it was not until she married and came to the United States in 1948 that she found her poetic voice, helped by the likes of William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Shortly before her death in 1997, the woman who claimed no country as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. This book examines Levertov's interviews, essays, and self-revelatory poetry to discern the conflict and torment she both endured and created in her attempts to deal with her own psyche, her relationships with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and the times in which she lived. This book is the first complete biography of Levertov, a woman who claimed she did not want a biography, insisting that it was her work that she hoped would endure. And yet she confessed that her poetry in its various forms—lyric, political, natural, and religious—derived from her life experience. Although a substantial body of criticism has established Levertov as a major poet of the later twentieth century, the book represents the first attempt to set her poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.
Franca Dellarosa
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781381441
- eISBN:
- 9781781382189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381441.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter investigates Edward Rushton’s responsiveness to the tumultuous global dynamics underlying the ongoing alterations of assumed world order, which emerge in his writing with multifaceted ...
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This chapter investigates Edward Rushton’s responsiveness to the tumultuous global dynamics underlying the ongoing alterations of assumed world order, which emerge in his writing with multifaceted prominence. Central to the analysis is Rushton’s consistent rejection of war, which finds a most radical expression in ‘Lines Addressed to Robert Southey’, one of his latest poems and a fierce critique of the newly appointed Poet Laureate’s first piece. The chapter investigates in detail the connection between Rushton and Southey, who met in 1808 and shared a passing connection and affinity; this would not prevent the former from shaping his unbending abhorrence of conflict into a powerful metapoetic verse response to the expansive rhetoric of Southey’s Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814. Rushton’s poem is discussed against the background of the controversial reception of Southey’s piece. In a sort of implicit symmetry with the desolate picture of the European theatre of war, the poem ‘The Coromantees’ is examined as evidence of Rushton’s acute sensitivity to lacerating global issues, where the Caribbean seascape offers, this time, the Atlantic theatre for a new exercise in violence, brutal power and deceit, thus entering the meticulous construction of his global critique of imperialism.Less
This chapter investigates Edward Rushton’s responsiveness to the tumultuous global dynamics underlying the ongoing alterations of assumed world order, which emerge in his writing with multifaceted prominence. Central to the analysis is Rushton’s consistent rejection of war, which finds a most radical expression in ‘Lines Addressed to Robert Southey’, one of his latest poems and a fierce critique of the newly appointed Poet Laureate’s first piece. The chapter investigates in detail the connection between Rushton and Southey, who met in 1808 and shared a passing connection and affinity; this would not prevent the former from shaping his unbending abhorrence of conflict into a powerful metapoetic verse response to the expansive rhetoric of Southey’s Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814. Rushton’s poem is discussed against the background of the controversial reception of Southey’s piece. In a sort of implicit symmetry with the desolate picture of the European theatre of war, the poem ‘The Coromantees’ is examined as evidence of Rushton’s acute sensitivity to lacerating global issues, where the Caribbean seascape offers, this time, the Atlantic theatre for a new exercise in violence, brutal power and deceit, thus entering the meticulous construction of his global critique of imperialism.
Margaret J. M. Ezell
- Published in print:
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- eISBN:
- 9780191849572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0019
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this ...
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There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this time included Anne Finch, who was circulating her verses in manuscript among friends and compiling manuscript collections, and Mary Astell, who created a manuscript volume of verse for Archbishop Sancroft. Prolific poets in print included Sir Richard Blackmore, Samuel Garth, and Matthew Prior, who all published in miscellany collections. Jonathan Swift began publishing occasional verse in periodicals including the Athenian GazetteLess
There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this time included Anne Finch, who was circulating her verses in manuscript among friends and compiling manuscript collections, and Mary Astell, who created a manuscript volume of verse for Archbishop Sancroft. Prolific poets in print included Sir Richard Blackmore, Samuel Garth, and Matthew Prior, who all published in miscellany collections. Jonathan Swift began publishing occasional verse in periodicals including the Athenian Gazette
Michael Eskin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758314
- eISBN:
- 9780804786812
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758314.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book deals with the complex interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); ...
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This book deals with the complex interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad native, U.S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996); and Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962). Focusing on their poetic dialogues with such interlocutors as Shakespeare, Seneca, and Byron, respectively—veritable love affairs unfolding in and through poetry—the author offers readings of Celan's, Brodsky's, and Grünbein's lives and works, and discloses the ways in which poetry articulates and remains faithful to the manifold “truths”—historical, political, poetic, erotic—determining human existence.Less
This book deals with the complex interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad native, U.S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996); and Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962). Focusing on their poetic dialogues with such interlocutors as Shakespeare, Seneca, and Byron, respectively—veritable love affairs unfolding in and through poetry—the author offers readings of Celan's, Brodsky's, and Grünbein's lives and works, and discloses the ways in which poetry articulates and remains faithful to the manifold “truths”—historical, political, poetic, erotic—determining human existence.
Margaret J. M. Ezell
- Published in print:
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- eISBN:
- 9780191849572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
The birth of an heir to King James and Mary of Modena led to a crisis, with allegations that the child was not legitimate. Whig politicians were alarmed by the promotion of openly practicing ...
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The birth of an heir to King James and Mary of Modena led to a crisis, with allegations that the child was not legitimate. Whig politicians were alarmed by the promotion of openly practicing Catholics in the army and at the court. Upon the invasion by William, the court fled into exile in France, establishing a rival court at St. Germain. While in exile, Jacobite poets including Jane Barker created manuscript volumes of verse and fiction to be published later. In England, supporters of King James including Heneage and Anne Finch retreated from London into a quiet exile in the countryside, and John Dryden was removed from his post as Poet Laureate.Less
The birth of an heir to King James and Mary of Modena led to a crisis, with allegations that the child was not legitimate. Whig politicians were alarmed by the promotion of openly practicing Catholics in the army and at the court. Upon the invasion by William, the court fled into exile in France, establishing a rival court at St. Germain. While in exile, Jacobite poets including Jane Barker created manuscript volumes of verse and fiction to be published later. In England, supporters of King James including Heneage and Anne Finch retreated from London into a quiet exile in the countryside, and John Dryden was removed from his post as Poet Laureate.
Carol Boggess
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174181
- eISBN:
- 9780813174815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174181.003.0027
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the last decade of Still’s life during which he published five books, including The Wolfpen Notebooks; River of Earth celebrated its 50th anniversary; and Still was named Poet ...
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This chapter discusses the last decade of Still’s life during which he published five books, including The Wolfpen Notebooks; River of Earth celebrated its 50th anniversary; and Still was named Poet Laureate of Kentucky. He made an important new connection in Ted Olson who later would collect and edit his poems and stories. He strengthened friendships with writers Wendell Berry and Lee Smith, and influenced a range of younger writers including among others: George Ella Lyon, Chris Offutt, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson, and Silas House.Less
This chapter discusses the last decade of Still’s life during which he published five books, including The Wolfpen Notebooks; River of Earth celebrated its 50th anniversary; and Still was named Poet Laureate of Kentucky. He made an important new connection in Ted Olson who later would collect and edit his poems and stories. He strengthened friendships with writers Wendell Berry and Lee Smith, and influenced a range of younger writers including among others: George Ella Lyon, Chris Offutt, Maurice Manning, Crystal Wilkinson, and Silas House.
