Research Catalog

Title

The poetry of the self-taught : an eighteenth-century phenomenon / Julie Prandi.

Author

Prandi, Julie D., 1951-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

vi, 202 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The Poetry of the Self-Taught demonstrates the characteristic strengths of self-taught poetry and analyzes the factors that have caused most self-taught poets to disappear from anthologies and from literary history. Raising the question of whether or not their work should he read today and taken seriously - instead of being relegated to separate and unequal categories like women's or "peasant" poetry - the book highlights interesting contrasts between the poetry of eighteenth-century autodidacts. The Poetry of the Self-Taught will be useful for courses focusing on such poets or those dealing with eighteenth-century literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
• German poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
• Working class writings, English
• Working class writings, German
• Self-culture in literature
• Working class authors > Great Britain
• Working class authors > Germany
• Comparative literature > English and German
• Comparative literature > German and English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Backgrounds of Self-Taught Poets -- Social Status -- Educational Background -- Geographic Marginality -- Ch. 2. What Self-Taught Means for Poetic Form -- Poetic Models -- The Classification Conundrum -- Occasional Poetry -- Formal Faults -- Transgressions of Taste: The Sordid and the Sexual -- Ch. 3. The Aesthetics of the Self-Taught -- Natural Genius and the Critics -- Nature or Nurture: How the Self-Taught Portray Themselves -- Poetics in the Verse Epistle -- Ch. 4. Patronage in Poetry -- Crabbe: Patronage as Theme -- Poems Soliciting Patrons -- Petition Poems -- The Flattery Problem -- Thanking or Rebuking Patrons -- Ch. 5. Analyses of Social Inequality -- Inequality of Women: Zaunemann, Yearsley, and Leapor -- Fractured Fables: Muller, Schubart, and Leapor -- Corporal Class Divide: Schubart and Burns -- Ch. 6. Winter Poems.

ISBN

• 9781433102516 (cb : alk. paper)
• 143310251X (cb : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008011579
• 40015511320

OCLC

• ocn213466425
• 213466425
• SCSB-5414869

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries