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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McDonald, Peter (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Sound intentions [Texte imprimé] : the workings of rhyme in nineteenth-century poetry / Peter McDonald
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : 358 p. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Rhyme, chance, and repetition ; William Wordsworth : poetry and repose ; John Keats
: 'The very word' ; Alfred Tennyson : memory and hope ; Christina Rossetti : the
sound of the sea ; Gerard M. Hopkins : 'Driven to it' ; An afterword : rhyme and
three poets.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-353) and index
"The rhymes in poems are important to understanding how poets write; and in the nineteenth
century, rhyme conditioned the ways in which poets heard both themselves and each
other writing. Sound Intentions studies the significance of rhyme in Wordsworth, Keats,
Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Hopkins, and other poets, including Coleridge, Byron,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Swinburne, and Hardy. The book's stylistic reading of
nineteenth-century poetry argues for Wordsworth's centrality to issues of intention
and chance in poets' work, and offers a reading of the formal choices made in poetry
as profoundly revealing points of intertextual relation. Sound Intentions ranges widely,
and includes detailed consideration of the critical meaning of both rhyme and repetition,
bringing to bear an emphasis on form as poetry's crucial proving-ground. In a series
of detailed readings of important poems, the book shows how close formal attention
goes beyond critical formalism, and can become a way of illuminating poets' deepest
preoccupations, doubts, and beliefs. Wordsworth's sounding of his own poetic voice,
in blank verse as well as rhyme, is here taken as a model for the ways in which later
nineteenth-century poets attend to the most perplexing and important voicings of their
own poetic originality."--Dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Anglais (langue) -- Rimes
Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199661190 (hbk.). - ISBN 0199661197 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435323867
Notice n° :
FRBNF43532386
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