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The Pointe of the Pen

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

By: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

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The Pointe of the Pen

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

By: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, the prospect of extinction) as attitudes toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who, like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic art of poetry compatible with "the very language of men" and, therefore, relevant to a new class of readers. Moreover, as a model, ballet was visible as well as valuable. Dance historians recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its practitioners in the nineteenth century, and 'The Pointe of the Pen' challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett Browning."--taken from back cover.

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1800859481

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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

By: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social and literary developments to describe the relationship between poetics and luxury in an age when imperial trade and domestic consumerism reached a fevered pitch. The "luscious poem," as Tontiplaphol defines it, is a subset of the luxurious, a category that suggests richness in combination with enclosure and intimacy. For Keats, Tontiplaphol suggests, the psychological virtues of luscious experience generated a new poetics, one that combined his Romantic predecessors' sense of the ameliorative power of poetry with his own revaluation of space, both physical and prosodic. Her approach blends cultural context with close attention to the formal and affective qualities of poetry as she describes the efforts of Keats and his equally”though differently”anxious Victorian inheritors to develop textual spaces as luscious as the ones their language describes. For all three poets, that effort entailed rediscovering and reinterpreting the list, or catalogue, and each chapter's textual and formal analyses are offered in counterpoint to careful examination of the century's luscious materialities. Her book is at once a study of influence, a socio-historical critique, and a form-focused assessment of three century-defining voices.

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The Pointe of the Pen

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

By: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

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Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

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Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

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The Pointe of the Pen

The Pointe of the Pen

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

The Pointe of the Pen

The Pointe of the Pen

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

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