Lyric generations : poetry and the novel in the long eighteenth century
In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice.
Print Book, English, ©2003
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 298 pages ; 23 cm
9780801873799, 0801873797
1004584491
Clarissa and the lyric -- Modes of absorption : lyric and letter in Behn, Haywood, and Pope -- Lyric tensions : sympathy, displacement, and self into the mid-century -- Rhetorical realisms : chiasmus, convention, and lyric -- The limits of lyric and the space of the novel.