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Overview
This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry that displays awareness of itself as poetry - in the work of the major Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Michael O'Neill's readings freshly illuminate the imaginative distinction of many famous and often-studied poems, and revalue less regarded works. An extended coda looks at some post-Romantic poets, particularly Yeats, Stevens, Auden, and Clampitt, in the light of the book's central theme.
Synopsis
This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry that displays awareness of itself as poetry - in the work of the major Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Michael O'Neill's readings freshly illuminate the imaginative distinction of many famous and often-studied poems, and revalue less regarded works. An extended coda looks at some post-Romantic poets, particularly Yeats, Stevens, Auden, and Clampitt, in the light of the book's central theme.
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Examines the phenomenon of the "self-conscious poem"<-->a poem concerned with poetry or a poem that displays awareness of itself as a poem<-->in the work of major Romantic poets including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Looks at self- consciousness as part of the new status granted to poetry by the Romantics, and suggests that self-consciousness in Romantic poetry often accompanies exploration of, and even anxiety about, poetry's significance. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.