The subject of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning could not be
timelier with Zizek's recent proclamation that we are 'living in
the end times' and in an era which is preoccupied with the process
and consequences of ageing. We mourn both for our pasts and futures
as we now recognise that history is a continuation and record of
loss. Mark Sandy explores the treatment of grief, loss, and death
across a variety of Romantic poetic forms, including the ballad,
sonnet, epic, elegy, fragment, romance, and ode in the works of
poets as diverse as Smith, Hemans, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Clare. Romantic meditations on grief,
however varied in form and content, are self-consciously aware of
the complexity and strength of feelings surrounding the consolation
or disconsolation that their structures of poetic memory afford
those who survive the imaginary and actual dead. Romantic mourning,
Sandy shows, finds expression in disparate poetic forms, and how it
manifests itself both as the spirit of its age, rooted in precise
historical conditions, and as a proleptic power, of lasting
transhistorical significance. Romantic meditations on grief and
loss speak to our contemporary anxieties about the inevitable, but
unthinkable, event of death itself.
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