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Futures of Enlightenment Poetry (Hardcover)
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Futures of Enlightenment Poetry (Hardcover)
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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment
from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's
theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth
century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in
Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of
spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm.
Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity,
swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body
and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried
over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern
devotional practice. A range of authors agreed that poems can
provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what
kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist
impulse-exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna
Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth-is to overcome the
temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful
home in matter. The spiritualist impulse-driving eighteenth-century
verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young-is
to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's
freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two
tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment,
and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The
final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps
open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction
considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.
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