The Unacknowledged Legislator PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Unacknowledged Legislator PDF full book. Access full book title The Unacknowledged Legislator by P. M. S. Dawson. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: P. M. S. Dawson
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: P. M. S. Dawson
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Roger Pearson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191069418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Get Book Here
Book Description
What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.
Author: Robert Fricker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Martín Espada
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051474
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Get Book Here
Book Description
Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet
Author: Bonamy Dobrée
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Anna M Evans
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781795338516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Get Book Here
Book Description
A powerful book of poems about that most nonpoetic of topics: politics. In bold, skillful verse, poet and politician Anna M. Evans brings home all of hopes and fears for a nation--and makes those hopes and fears a lyric reality.
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Get Book Here
Book Description
"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
