Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Author:   Stefanie John
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032016504


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 May 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry


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This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poets, and it relates this engagement to wider concerns with gender, nation, and nature which have shaped contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Covering a substantial number of works from the 1980s to the 2010s, the book discusses how Boland and Clarke, as women poets from the Republic of Ireland and Wales, react to a male-dominated and Anglocentric lyric tradition and thus rework notions of the Romantic. It examines how Burnside and Jamie challenge, adopt, and revise Romantic aesthetics of nature and environment. The book is the first in-depth study to read Boland, Clarke, Burnside, and Jamie as post-Romantics. By disentangling the aesthetic and critical conceptions of Romanticism which inform their inheritance, it develops an innovative approach to the understanding of contemporary poetry and literary influence.

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Author:   Stefanie John
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032016504


ISBN 10:   1032016507
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 May 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"1 Introduction 2 The Romantic Ideology and its Persistence in Contemporary Poetry 3 Eavan Boland’s Challenge to the ""Romantic Heresy"" 4 Layered Aesthetics in Gillian Clarke’s Poetry 5 Proposing the Impossible: Poetry as Ecology in John Burnside’s Works 6 Kathleen Jamie’s Post-Romantic Formations of Nature 7 Conclusion: Dialogues and Afterlives"

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Stefanie John is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

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