Callaghan, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-3549 (2023) What can the romantic lyric do? Textual Practice, 37 (12). pp. 1981-1999. ISSN 0950-236X
Abstract
The Romantic fascination with lyric is only matched by the poets’ relentless drive to experiment with and individualise the genre. Lyric’s limits test the creative and critical intelligence of the Romantic poet who asks what poetry can know and how it can know it, and what lyric can do and how it can do it. This article considers the ways in which each poet asks the question of what can lyric do and show how they react with and against a genre that imagines transhistorical existence even as it lives in the loss of the specific moment it would record. Focusing upon Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, I discuss the ways in which the Romantic poets responsible for this idea of ‘the ideal form of “the Romantic lyric”’ manipulated, challenged, and shaped the idea of lyric that we have inherited.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Romantic; lyric; genre; self; poetry |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2022 11:04 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 09:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0950236X.2022.2150293 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189875 |