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- catalog abstract "In the vast diversity of Western civilization, poetry has traditions both national and international that span three millennia. To write a coherent critical history of even just lyric poetry would be perhaps beyond human powers, but in his essays Lowry Nelson finds it possible to take soundings--in great epochs of inventiveness and of changing sensibility; in the extremes of expressivity; in the reader's varying fictive role--while setting in appropriate contexts works of such poets as Horace, the early Trobadors[sic], St. John of the Cross, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Leopardi, Baudelaire, and Vyacheslav Ivanov. Each essay has a different scope and emphasis within the apparently limitless range of possibilities. Nelson's arrangement of the essays is chronological, though only roughly so; many issues and examples could be explored in other contexts. Yet there is a presiding view of literature that is commonly designated as comparative, stressing some degree of universality: poets happily transgress frontiers and barriers; one tradition absorbs others in its own way, as in the poetries of Roman and medieval Latin, the Provensals, Petrarch and Petrarchism, Symbolism, and Modernism. Nelson observes only one restriction. He concentrates on lyric poetry, although much that he examines can be applied to other forms.".
- catalog contributor b3560074.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature -- 2. Extremes of Expression -- 3. The Kind of Early Lyric -- 4. Toward a Definition of Mystical Poetry -- 5. Conditions of Early Provensal Poetry -- 6. Cavalcanti's Centrality in Early Vernacular Poetry -- 7. Close Reading of Lyric Poetry -- 8. The Matter of Rime: Sonnets of Sidney, Daniel, and Shakespeare -- 9. Civic Poetry -- 10. Vico and Gozzi as Innovators in Poetic Criticism -- 11. Bottomless Soundings: Poems by Lomonosov, Wordsworth, and Leopardi -- 12. Leopardi First and Last -- 13. Baudelaire and Virgil: A Reading of "Le Cygne" -- 14. Translatio Lauri: Ivanov's Translations of Petrarch -- 15. The Fictive Reader and Literary Self-Reflexiveness.".
- catalog description "Each essay has a different scope and emphasis within the apparently limitless range of possibilities. Nelson's arrangement of the essays is chronological, though only roughly so; many issues and examples could be explored in other contexts. Yet there is a presiding view of literature that is commonly designated as comparative, stressing some degree of universality: poets happily transgress frontiers and barriers; one tradition absorbs others in its own way, as in the poetries of Roman and medieval Latin, the Provensals, Petrarch and Petrarchism, Symbolism, and Modernism. Nelson observes only one restriction. He concentrates on lyric poetry, although much that he examines can be applied to other forms.".
- catalog description "In the vast diversity of Western civilization, poetry has traditions both national and international that span three millennia. To write a coherent critical history of even just lyric poetry would be perhaps beyond human powers, but in his essays Lowry Nelson finds it possible to take soundings--in great epochs of inventiveness and of changing sensibility; in the extremes of expressivity; in the reader's varying fictive role--while setting in appropriate contexts works of such poets as Horace, the early Trobadors[sic], St. John of the Cross, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Leopardi, Baudelaire, and Vyacheslav Ivanov.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 310 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Poetic configurations.".
- catalog identifier "0271008008".
- catalog isFormatOf "Poetic configurations.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Poetic configurations.".
- catalog subject "809.1 20".
- catalog subject "Criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN1136 .N38 1992".
- catalog subject "Poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature -- 2. Extremes of Expression -- 3. The Kind of Early Lyric -- 4. Toward a Definition of Mystical Poetry -- 5. Conditions of Early Provensal Poetry -- 6. Cavalcanti's Centrality in Early Vernacular Poetry -- 7. Close Reading of Lyric Poetry -- 8. The Matter of Rime: Sonnets of Sidney, Daniel, and Shakespeare -- 9. Civic Poetry -- 10. Vico and Gozzi as Innovators in Poetic Criticism -- 11. Bottomless Soundings: Poems by Lomonosov, Wordsworth, and Leopardi -- 12. Leopardi First and Last -- 13. Baudelaire and Virgil: A Reading of "Le Cygne" -- 14. Translatio Lauri: Ivanov's Translations of Petrarch -- 15. The Fictive Reader and Literary Self-Reflexiveness.".
- catalog title "Poetic configurations : essays in literary history and criticism / Lowry Nelson Jr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".