Majestic indolence : English romantic poetry and the work of art /
Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of interest in literary formalism, aesthetics, and the pastoral genre. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," Coleridge's "d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Spiegelman examines the theme of indolence-- both positive and negative--as it appears in the canonical work of four Romantic poets. He argues for a renewal of interest in literary formalism, aesthetics, and the pastoral genre. Wordsworth's "wise passiveness," Coleridge's "dejection" and torpor, Shelley's pastoral dolce far niente, and Keats's "delicious ... indolence" are seen as individual manifestations of a common theme. Spiegelman argues that the trope of indolence originated in the religious, philosophical, psychological, and economic discourses from the middle ages to the late eighteenth. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423735749 9781423735748 1602560196 9781602560192 9780195093568 0195093569 1280441984 9781280441981 |
