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The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry

The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry

Miller, Christopher R.

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 66

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521123496
ISBN13: 9780521123495
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 19 2009
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this development. The tradition of evening poetry runs from the idyllic settings of Virgil to the urban twilights of T. S. Eliot, and flourished in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. In fresh readings of familiar Romantic poems, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time and to associate it with subtle movements of thought and perception. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works, and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express.

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