1st Edition
Graveyard Poetry Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition
By Eric Parisot
Copyright 2013
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the mid-century aesthetic revision of poetics. Graveyard poetry's contribution to this paradigm shift,... Read more
Contents: Introduction: re-reading graveyard poetry; Prospects of eternity: the theology of poetic salvation; The problem of religious authority and poetic autonomy; Seeking the daimonic and the divine; The paths of glory: death and poetic ambition; In trembling hope: reading and the sympathetic afterlife; Post-mortem; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Eric Parisot is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia.
'Parisot is interested in tracing a relationship between the decline of the public and oratorical sermon and the rise of silent reading, first in the form of closet devotion, later in a secularized meditation that increasingly relies on printed material that can be read in private.' Studies in English Literature
