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Wordsworth Elegizing the Lyrical Ballad in the 1830s and 1840s
Abstract:Elegy has become a genre more honored in the breach than the observance: its focus on the poet-mourner’s own grief risks seeming histrionic. Or it may seem that the poet consoles herself too quickly, undermining her sincerity and disrespecting the deceased. This article explores a negotiation of the risks attendant upon elegy by examining three poems of William Wordsworth’s late career that commemorate members of his intimate circle, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These poems are significant examples of Wordsworth’s revision of the elegiac as he had inherited and practiced it because they commemorate and mourn tacitly, founding themselves on a newly dead friend’s old poetic words rather than voicing grief directly. What is memorialized is as much the old poetry as the friend himself.
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.