Conversing in Verse
Conversation in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
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- Author: Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago
- Date Published: July 2022
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Conversing in Verse considers poems of conversation from the late eighteenth into the twentieth centuries – the very period when a more restrictive conception of poetry as the lyric product of the poet's solitary self-communing became entrenched. With fresh insight, Elizabeth Helsinger addresses a range of questions at the core of conversational poetry: When and why do poets turn to conversation to explore poetry's potential? How do conversation's forms and intentions shape the figures, rhythms, and prosody of poems to alter the reader's experience? What are the ethical and political stakes of conversing in verse? Coleridge, Clare, Landor, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Michael Field, and Hardy each composed poems that open difficult or impossible conversations with phenomena outside themselves. Helsinger unearths an unfamiliar lyric history that produced some of the most interesting formal experiments of the nineteenth century, including its best known, the dramatic monologue.
Read more- Names and explores conversational poetry as a substantial lyric category, equipping readers from undergraduate level and upwards with a compelling new critical framework and provoking a re-thinking of what 'lyric' is and does
- Provides rich contextual analysis to show how nineteenth-century poets adapted and transformed a history of verse conversation dating back to the classical period, thus opening a new literary history for such nineteenth-century poetic forms as the dramatic monologue
- Argues for the ethical and political stakes of conversing in verse, drawing on twentieth-century philosophical writing and more recent prosodic arguments about conversation, voice, and poetry
- Models a thoughtful interdisciplinary approach to the experience of reading, with particular relevance to our present and recent experiences of virtual conversing on digital and other social media
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- Date Published: July 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009200219
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: A Poetics of Encounter
2. Dialogue and the Idyll: Tennyson and Landor
3. Performing Conversation: Swinburne and Robert Browning
4. Projects of Animation: Coleridge and Clare
5. Ecphrastic Questions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Michael Field
6. Cruel Intimacies: Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy
Epilogue: Louise Glück's Secret Conversations.
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