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Author: Dustin D. Stewart Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019259964X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice. A range of authors agreed that poems can provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist impulse—exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth—is to overcome the temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful home in matter. The spiritualist impulse—driving eighteenth-century verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young—is to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment, and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.
Author: Dustin D. Stewart Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019259964X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice. A range of authors agreed that poems can provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist impulse—exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth—is to overcome the temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful home in matter. The spiritualist impulse—driving eighteenth-century verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young—is to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment, and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.
Author: Dustin D. Stewart Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198857799 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.
Author: Rowan Boyson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317319664 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
Author: Porscha Fermanis Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748637818 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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John Keats is generally considered to be the least intellectually sophisticated of all the major Romantic poets, but he was a more serious thinker than either his contemporaries or later scholars have acknowledged. This book provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought from the work of Voltaire, Robertson, and Gibbon to Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith.The book re-examines some of Keats's most important poems, including The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, Lamia, and Ode to Psyche, in the light of a range of Enlightenment ideas and contexts from literary history and cultural progress to anthropology, political economy, and moral philosophy. By demonstrating that the language and ideas of the Enlightenment played a key role in establishing his poetic agenda, Keats's poetry is shown to be less the expression of an intuitive young genius than the product of the cultural and intellectual contexts of his time.
Author: William Max Hall Publisher: ISBN: 9781124370996 Category : Languages : en Pages : 420
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One of the most durable aspects of our Romantic legacy is the notion that poetry represents a creative and personal expression of a "glowing imagination." However, I argue that this Romantic and expressivist ideal obscures poetry's dependence on technical craft and smoothes over its modern origins in a logic of machinery. The Enlightenment Engine, as a historical and theoretical study, attempts to revive the notion of the poem as techne --a tool, device, or craftwork episteme--by reading the eighteenth-century concept of "pure poetry" against the "Romanticizing" tendency of its interpreters to conscript it into a poiesis model of poetry--a transcendentally oriented episteme. I argue that to think through the newly reenergized dialectic of poetry/technology we return to the conceptual dialectic poiesis/techne and trace it back through twentieth-century literary criticism and aesthetic debates to the Enlightenment's ambivalent theory of "pure poetry." I principally study the clash of epistemological values that underwrite this conceptual divide through four permutations: literary studies after the advent of New Media studies and digitally born literary objects; the legacy of Joseph Warton's "pure poetry" in twentieth-century criticism; "pure poetry" and the limits of the human-machine in their eighteenth-century intellectual context; the experimental work of William Collins's Odes; and the epistemological intersection of Christopher Smart's poetry and the cabinet of curiosity. Thus the twenty-first century demand that the humanities account for the implications of technology in the human life-world echoes the Enlightenment's preoccupation with the epistemological value of poetry configured as an aesthetic technology.
Author: Colin Drake Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 035922248X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 84
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This book is a stand-alone guide to, and practices for, Awakening and is composed of poems based on articles in 'Enlightenment Is For All', which are themselves based on new discoveries, replies to questions and internet discussions on Awakening. The thrust of the book is that the initial awakening which reveals that, in essence, we are Pure Awareness is very simple to obtain. Then this needs to be established by repeated awakenings due to the natural tendency to 'nod off' and re-identify oneself as a separate object in a universe of separate objects. When one is awake then anxiety and unnecessary mental suffering disappear, for these are caused by this misidentification which causes us to see each other, and the world, through a murky filter of self-interest, self-concern, self-promotion, self-aggrandizement, self-loathing, the list is almost endless. It is this world-view that causes the anxiety and mental suffering based on concern for the future and feeling we are bound by the past
Author: Tymothy Maris Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479764019 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 85
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This Book is Chapter 4 : the Fourth in a series of Autobiographical Poems based on my experiences around the new millennium. The Poems in this Book are sometimes serious, sometimes funny and many times with a punch-line at the end. The Poems in this book are mostly Rhyme poems, with Name Poems and many with hints of Imagery. Many Poems gives one the sense of what it was like to live after the Oppression Years (Chapter 3 : the Lost Years), ie: an Enlightenment, a re-birth of sorts. The next Book, Chapter 5, will be based on the (even more) happier things to come in the future.
Author: Dustin D. Stewart
Author: Dustin D. Stewart
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