Poetry in the Making (eBook, ePUB)

Creativity and Composition in Victorian Poetic Drafts
Redaktion: Tyler, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry in the Making investigates the compositional practices of Victorian poets, as made evident in the autograph manuscripts of their poems. Written in an accessible and stimulating style, the book offers careful readings of individual drafts, paying attention to the revisions, cancellations, interlineations, trials of rhyme and form, and sometimes the large structural changes that these documents reveal. The book shows how manuscript revisions offer insights into the creative priorities and decisions of major Victorian poets (Wordsworth, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats); and they investigate ideas of composition in the period, particularly the uneasy balance between inspiration and labour. The book testifies to the care that poets exercised at the smallest levels of their craft and demonstrates that the drafts reward an equally close attention on the part of the critic. Collectively, the chapters develop a survey of how Victorian poets experienced and understood their own creativity, setting abstract claims about inspiration and craftsmanship against their own practical experiences. The book responds to and extends a renewed interest in manuscript sources at the present time that has been stimulated in part by the increased availability of digital and facsimile editions. For a long time, scholarly interest in nineteenth-century literary manuscripts has been dominated by editorial and theoretical concerns. This book testifies to the value for criticism of poetic drafts, establishing the significance of revision and of manuscript studies for the field of Victorian poetry and for literary scholarship more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191087493
• Artikelnr.: 60545359

Autorenporträt

Daniel Tyler is a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He specialises in British literature of the nineteenth century. He is editor of Dickens's Style (2013) and On Style in Victorian Fiction (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Daniel Tyler: Poetry in the Making: Introduction
* 2: Peter Robinson: 'On the Power of Sound': the 'moral music' of
Wordsworth at Work in Later Life
* 3: Herbert F. Tucker: Better Yet: Tennyson's Poetic Revisionism in
the Harvard Manuscripts
* 4: Richard Cronin: Elizabeth Barrett and the making of Browning's
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
* 5: Kirstie Blair and Marjorie Stone: 'Not Death, but Love': The
Unmaking of Sonnets in the night and the Making of Sonnets from the
Portuguese
* 6: Daniel Tyler: Instinct and Hesitation in the Work of Arthur Hugh
Clough
* 7: Constance W. Hassett: Christina Rossetti and the Triumph of
Revision
* 8: Catherine Phillips: Hopkins and the Lost Beloved: the Making of 'A
Voice from the World' and 'Binsey Poplars'
* 9: Jerome McGann: The Composition and Meaning of Swinburne's
'Anactoria'
* 10: Hugh Haughton: Yeats's Singing-School: The Wanderings of Oisin
(1889) to The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)