{"title":"Suffering, Sacred, or Free: Romantic Revolutions of the Word, with Special Reference to Byron","authors":"J. McGann","doi":"10.1353/srm.2021.0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A few signal commonplaces of Romantic poetry are addressed: first, that the movement executed a “revolution of the word”—or perhaps “revolutions,” given the diversity of Romantic practice; that the shift was announced in Wordsworth’s manifesto, the Lyrical Ballads “Preface,” and most elaborately theorized in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; and that while Byron was part of the revolution, he didn’t theorize his practice. But like Blake, because Byron’s work took an explicitly anti-systematic position, his “theory” is regularly presented as an argument by poetic practice: a show and tell performance of a language revolution that, he argued, was notably capacious and free.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"60 1","pages":"175 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/srm.2021.0017","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2021.0017","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:A few signal commonplaces of Romantic poetry are addressed: first, that the movement executed a “revolution of the word”—or perhaps “revolutions,” given the diversity of Romantic practice; that the shift was announced in Wordsworth’s manifesto, the Lyrical Ballads “Preface,” and most elaborately theorized in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; and that while Byron was part of the revolution, he didn’t theorize his practice. But like Blake, because Byron’s work took an explicitly anti-systematic position, his “theory” is regularly presented as an argument by poetic practice: a show and tell performance of a language revolution that, he argued, was notably capacious and free.
期刊介绍:
Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.