Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to De QuinceyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1990 - 301 עמודים In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography--especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory. |
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... says Scott provides a " poetical transcript " of actual events ( “ truth is presented not literally , but poetically ... says , Johnson vowed to write the life of a dunce and " say he was a dunce . " 63 The Lives of the Poets opens with ...
... says he chooses the accuracy of the compilation over the vainglory of composition , which Mason downgrades as the “ common form ” and Boswell calls a “ melting down . " 43. According to Carlyle , compilations are merely reference works ...
... says , “ The Romantic biographer would not work without voluminous original materials " ; Nadel , p . 6 , says eighteenth- and nineteenth - century biography placed research and investigation over interpreta- tion and narrative . Both ...
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Truth Is Not Here As In The Sciences | 18 |
Reading Cumulatively | 32 |
Connecting Lives and Works | 47 |
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