Main description:
Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take account of interrelated currents in American, Argentinian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Caribbean, Chilean, Colombian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Norwegian, Peruvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Uruguayan literature. Contributors adopt different models for comparative study: tracing a theme or motif through several literatures; developing innovative models of transnational influence; studying the role of Romantic poetry in socio-political developments; or focusing on an issue that appears most prominently in one national literature yet is illuminated by the international context. This collaborative volume provides an invaluable resource for students of comparative literature and Romanticism.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Evolution of Sensibility and Representation
- 1.1 Autumn in the Romantic Lyric
- 1.2 Reflection as Mimetic Trope
- 1.3 On Romantic Cognition
- 1.4 Vörösmarty and the Poetic Fragment in Hungarian Romanticism
- 1.5 Loss and Expectation
- 1.6 Poetry as Self-Consumption
- 2. The Evolution of Genre
- 2.1 Lyric Poetry in the Early Romantic Theory of the Schlegel Brothers
- 2.2 The Romantic Ode
- 2.3 The European Romantic Epic and the History of a Genre
- 2.4 The Sublime Sonnet in European Romanticism
- 2.5 Elegiac Muses
- 3. Romantic Poetry and National Projects
- 3.1 Awakening Peripheries
- 3.2 'National Poets' in the Romantic Age
- 3.3 Romanian Poetry and the Great Romantic Narrative about the Mission of the Poet
- 3.4 Greek Romanticism: A Cosmopolitan Discourse
- 3.5 Time and History in Spanish Romantic Poetry
- 3.6 The Experience of the City in British Romantic Poetry
- 3.7 'Sons of Song'
- 3.8 Near the Rapids
- 3.9 Address and Its Dialectics in American Romantic Poetry
- 3.10 Romantic Poetry in Latin America
- 4. Interpretations, Re-creations, and Performances of Romantic Poetry
- 4.1 Baudelaire’s Re-reading of Romanticism
- 4.2 Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus
- 4.3 Reception as Performance
- 4.4 Implications of an Influence
- 4.5 Organicist Poetics as Romantic Heritage?
- 4.6 The Uses of Romantic Poetry
- Index of Names
- Index of Titles
Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take account of interrelated currents in American, Argentinian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Caribbean, Chilean, Colombian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Norwegian, Peruvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Uruguayan literature. Contributors adopt different models for comparative study: tracing a theme or motif through several literatures; developing innovative models of transnational influence; studying the role of Romantic poetry in socio-political developments; or focusing on an issue that appears most prominently in one national literature yet is illuminated by the international context. This collaborative volume provides an invaluable resource for students of comparative literature and Romanticism.
Table of contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Evolution of Sensibility and Representation
- 1.1 Autumn in the Romantic Lyric
- 1.2 Reflection as Mimetic Trope
- 1.3 On Romantic Cognition
- 1.4 Vörösmarty and the Poetic Fragment in Hungarian Romanticism
- 1.5 Loss and Expectation
- 1.6 Poetry as Self-Consumption
- 2. The Evolution of Genre
- 2.1 Lyric Poetry in the Early Romantic Theory of the Schlegel Brothers
- 2.2 The Romantic Ode
- 2.3 The European Romantic Epic and the History of a Genre
- 2.4 The Sublime Sonnet in European Romanticism
- 2.5 Elegiac Muses
- 3. Romantic Poetry and National Projects
- 3.1 Awakening Peripheries
- 3.2 'National Poets' in the Romantic Age
- 3.3 Romanian Poetry and the Great Romantic Narrative about the Mission of the Poet
- 3.4 Greek Romanticism: A Cosmopolitan Discourse
- 3.5 Time and History in Spanish Romantic Poetry
- 3.6 The Experience of the City in British Romantic Poetry
- 3.7 'Sons of Song'
- 3.8 Near the Rapids
- 3.9 Address and Its Dialectics in American Romantic Poetry
- 3.10 Romantic Poetry in Latin America
- 4. Interpretations, Re-creations, and Performances of Romantic Poetry
- 4.1 Baudelaire’s Re-reading of Romanticism
- 4.2 Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus
- 4.3 Reception as Performance
- 4.4 Implications of an Influence
- 4.5 Organicist Poetics as Romantic Heritage?
- 4.6 The Uses of Romantic Poetry
- Index of Names
- Index of Titles