Examines Romantic poets' and essayists' fascination with the human form.
Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms.
| ISBN: | 9780791455623 |
| Publication date: | 24th October 2002 |
| Author: | Bruce Haley |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 307 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets History of art Literature: history and criticism |
Examines Romantic poets' and essayists' fascination with the human form.Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands.
Living Forms features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, History of art, Literature: history and criticism
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Living Forms was written by Bruce Haley and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Living Forms has 307 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century series