Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807

Self in Landscape

By:

Elizabeth R Napier

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from the repercussions of self-expression. Working under cover of convention in this manner and because for many of these poets place is tied in significant ways to personal history, poets of place may launch unexpected explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness. This book thus supplements past, largely political, readings of landscape poetry, turning to questions of self-articulation and self-expression in order to argue that the autobiographical impulse is a distinctive and innovative feature of much great eighteenth-century poetry of place. Among the poets under examination are Pope, Thomson, Duck, Gray, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Smith, and Wordsworth.

Author Biography:

Elizabeth R. Napier is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Middlebury College. She has published on, among other subjects, eighteenth-century English Gothic fiction, problems of embodiment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English fiction, and narrative strategies in the work of Daniel Defoe.

Release date Australia

April 25th, 2024

Author

Elizabeth R Napier

Series

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Pages

202

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white

ISBN-13

9781032331713

Product ID

38755654

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