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Graveyard Poetry - Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition (Paperback)
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Graveyard Poetry - Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition (Paperback)
Series: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
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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,
Parisot argues, stems from changing religious practices and their
increasing reliance on printed material to facilitate private
devotion by way of affective and subjective response. Coupling this
perspective with graveyard poetry's obsessive preoccupation with
death and salvation makes visible its importance as an articulation
or negotiation between contemporary religious concerns and emerging
aesthetics of poetic practice. Parisot reads the poetry of Robert
Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray, among others, as a series of
poetic experiments that attempt to accommodate changing religious
and reading practices and translate religious concerns into
parallel reconsiderations of poetic authority, agency, death and
afterlife. Making use of an impressive body of religious treatises,
sermons and verse that ground his study in a precise historical
moment, Parisot shows graveyard poetry's strong ties to
seventeenth-century devotional texts, and most importantly, its
influential role in the development of late eighteenth-century
sentimentalism and Romanticism.
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