Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth - Brossura

Somervell, Tess

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ISBN 10: 1474486142 ISBN 13: 9781474486149

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2024

Riassunto

Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton’s Paradise Lost, Thomson’s The Seasons and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader’s own experience of time.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on the poetry and culture of the period 1660-1850.

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Reveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and formReading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton’s Paradise Lost, Thomson’s The Seasons and Wordsworth’s The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. Reading Time argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader’s own experience of time.Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474486142
• ISBN 13: 9781474486149
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 248
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