Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992 - 409 páginas This is the first collection of literary parodies, both poetry and prose, written during the English Romantic period. Many anthologies of literary parody have been published during the past century, but no previous selection has concentrated so intensively on a single period in English literary history, and no period in that history was more remarkable for the quantity and diversity of its parody. There was no Romantic writer untouched by parody, either as subject or as author, or even occasionally as both. Most parodies were intended to discredit the Romantics not only as poets but as individuals, and to disarm the threat they were seen as posing to establish literary and social norms. Because it focuses on the "swarm of imitative writers" about whom Robert Southey complained in an 1819 letter to Walter Savage Landor, this collection throws light on a large and often overlooked body of work whose authors had much more serious purposes than mere ridicule or amusement. Romantic parody situates itself between the eighteenth-century craft of burlesque and the nonsense verse that Victorian parody often became. This anthology demonstrates that parody is concerned with power: that it expresses ideological conflict, dramatizing clashes of ideas, styles, and values between different generations of writers, different classes and social groups, and even between writers of the same generation and class. Parody is not an inherently conservative mode; politically, it serves the whole range of opinion from extreme left to extreme right. While several of the parodies are playful - a few even affectionate - most angrily testify to the political, social, and aesthetic divisions embittering the times. Some parodies have aged more gracefully than others. But all contribute to a more vivid understanding of the era and to the reception accorded the most important Romantic writers. The venom and alarm of the response those writers provoked may surprise anyone who takes it for granted that the Romantics easily made their way into the mainstream of English literature. This volume reprints parodies by the major Romantics (including Coleridge, Keats, Byron, and Shelley) as well as by minor, obscure, and anonymous contemporaries. Several longer, better-known texts are given in their entirety, e.g., Peter Bell, Peter Bell III, and The Vision of Judgment, and there are also examples from distinguished collections such as Rejected Addresses, The Poetic Mirror, and Warreniana. Numerous shorter works are taken from periodicals of the time (such as Blackwood's or The Satirist), and many of these are reprinted for the first time since their initial publication. The foreword by Linda Hutcheon, "Parody and Romantic Ideology," examines the theoretical implications of Romantic parodies. The introduction, headnotes, and annotations by the editors place the parodies in their historical, social, and literary contexts. |
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... beautiful of things " ' Tis well I see the beautiful of things , -Myself Else , K- , there thousands are who wouldn't see Scarce any thing , in this most stupid age , Worth calling poetry . Aye , and it's well , too , I do not engage To ...
... beautiful of things " ' Tis well I see the beautiful of things , -Myself Else , K- , there thousands are who wouldn't see Scarce any thing , in this most stupid age , Worth calling poetry . Aye , and it's well , too , I do not engage To ...
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... beautiful superstructure Of my flowers poetical , Whate'er I cull , Fall smack adown upon the muddy ground , Scattering , all o'er every where around , Their perfumes into air ! Wonder ye ? -poo ! now none of your scurvy jokes— I cannot ...
... beautiful superstructure Of my flowers poetical , Whate'er I cull , Fall smack adown upon the muddy ground , Scattering , all o'er every where around , Their perfumes into air ! Wonder ye ? -poo ! now none of your scurvy jokes— I cannot ...
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... beautiful of things . Do you not like where a dark wood covers , With her leafy hood all things , and hovers Above some up - hill and down - dale track , ( The sun in your face , and the wind in your back , ) To go , and see the ...
... beautiful of things . Do you not like where a dark wood covers , With her leafy hood all things , and hovers Above some up - hill and down - dale track , ( The sun in your face , and the wind in your back , ) To go , and see the ...
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Parody and Romantic Ideology | 7 |
George Canning and John Hookham Frere from The Anti | 25 |
Nehemiah Higginbottom Sonnets attempted in | 32 |
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bard beautiful Blackwood's Blackwood's Magazine breeches butt Byron child Christabel clouds Cockney Coleridge cried criticism damned dead Devil doth dream Drury Lane dull earth Edinburgh Edinburgh Review eyes fancy fear George hath Hazlitt head heard heart heaven hell Hunt James Hogg John John Hamilton Reynolds King Lady Lake Laureate Leigh Hunt letter literary living London look Lord Lyrical Ballads Magazine mind moon nature never o'er parodist parody Peter Bell poem poet poetic poetry political Preface prose published reader Review rhyme Robert Southey Romantic round Saint satire seemed Shelley soul Southey's spirit sweet tell thatt thee There's things Thomas Thomas Love Peacock thou thought turned twas verse Vision waggonere Warren Warren's Blacking Wat Tyler William William Hazlitt William Hone William Maginn wind words Wordsworth write
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