Thomas Chatterton's Art (eBook)

Experiments in Imagined History

Donald S. Taylor (Autor)

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2015
356 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7138-4 (ISBN)

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Thomas Chatterton's fabrications—or "forgeries"—of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, his works have never before been the subject of a sustained serious and critical investigation that focused on his artistic achievement rather than on the legend and myth surrounding his melodramatic life. Donald Taylor's study provides a thorough analysis of Chatterton's poems and to place them in the context of the poetic and literary traditions that influenced him. Setting his analyses within the contexts of "historic," heroic, satiric, pastoral, and descriptive modes, the author considers each of Chatterton's major works as solutions to the literary problems the poet set for himself, thus tracing the literary history of Chatterton's artistic development as a sequence of subjects and literary modes explored. As Professor Taylor amply demonstrates, Thomas Chatterton's brief career embodies important features of the literary transition from the Augustans to the Romantics and, contrary to traditional assumptions, shows that the historical worlds Chatterton imagined have close ties to the century and sensibility against which he is assumed to have rebelled.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anecdote • An Essay on Criticism • An Essay on Man • Antihero • apologue • augury • Banquo • Battle Of Hastings • Blank Verse • burlesque • Child of God • closet drama • Correction (novel) • Couplet • damsel in distress • Descriptive poetry • diction • Digression • dramatic monologue • Edmund Curll • english poetry • Epic Poetry • Epigram • Epistle • etymology • Euripides • Farce • Figure of Speech • flattery • Geoffrey of Monmouth • George Saintsbury • Gluttony • G. (novel) • Grandiosity • heroic couplet • historical fiction • Horace Walpole • Hudibras • hyperbole • iago • Inception • Irony • Jacob Bryant • Joseph Spence (author) • Literary Theory • Literature • Locrine • Low comedy • mad scientist • meanness • Melodrama • Memoir • Mock-heroic • Monstrous birth • Mr. • Music Criticism • narrative • Noble savage • obscenity • On Religion • Opera Seria • Ossian • Parody • Picaresque novel • Poetaster • poetic diction • Poetry • Political satire • Preface to the Lyrical Ballads • Rake (character) • R. G. Collingwood • ridicule • Roderigo • Satire • Satires (Horace) • simile • soliloquy • stanza • Stephen Dedalus • Superiority (short story) • taunting • The Anxiety of Influence • The Beggar's Opera • The dunciad • The Edwardians • The Last Article • The Lost Father • The Other Hand • Thomas Chatterton • Thyrsis (poem) • Tragedy • tragic hero • Trivium • V. • Verisimilitude (fiction) • war • William Hogarth • William K. Wimsatt • William Shakespeare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7138-7 / 1400871387
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7138-4 / 9781400871384