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 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:49 pm
 In the latter decades of the century, mystery novels, detective fiction, horror, and adventure stories soared in popularity, partly on the strength of an expanding audience of lower-income readers, rising literacy rates, and cheaper methods of book production (LXVI).That would be the time that Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series probably would start appearing. :)
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:57 pm
The landscape of England began to take on its modern appearance - the hitherto open rural areas subdivided into a checkerboard of fields enclosed by hedges and stone walls, with the factories of the cities casting a pall of smoke over vast areas of cheaply built houses and slum tenements.It's intriguing thinking about the contrasting environments that existed during the Romantic period.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:00 pm
... converted once-exotic imports from these colonies into everyday fare for the English. In the eighteenth century tea and sugar had been transformed in this way, and in the nineteenth century other commodities followed suit: the Indian muslin, for instance, that was the fabric of choice for gentlemen's cravats and fashionable ladies' gowns...Intriguing and nice to know. :)
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:06 pm
An apocalypse of the imagination could liberate the individual from time, from what Blake called the "mind-forg'd manacles" of imprisoning orthodoxies and from what Percy Shelley called "the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions."This sentence stood out to me. Not really sure why. Maybe it was the phrase "apocalypse of the imagination" (which happens to be highlighted by a previous owner of the anthology book I've gotten). Or just how the authors positively express what imagination does for a person.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:09 pm
This was the shift Wordsworth registered when in the Preface he located the source of a poem not in outer nature but in the psychology of the individual poet, and specified that the essential materials of a poem were not the external people and events it represented but the inner feelings of the author, or external objects only after these have been transformed by the author's feelings.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:11 pm
For male poets the risks of poetic self-revelation were different - and in some measure they were actively seized by those who, like Coleridge and Shelley, intimated darkly that the introspective tendency and emotional sensitivity that made someone a poet could also lead him to melancholy and madness.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:17 pm
...Coleridge opened up to modern poetry a realm of mystery and magic. Stories of bewitchings, hauntings, and possession - shaped by antiquated treatises on demonology, folklore, and Gothic novels - supplied him with the means of impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being. [...] On the one hand romances were writings that turned, in their quest for settings conducive to supernatural happenings, to "strange fits of passion" and strange adventures, to distant pasts, faraway places, or both...
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:25 pm
Prof. Moonie That's a really touching song and the music video really compliments the song's lyrics really well. Thanks for sharing it with me. :)
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:40 pm
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. Another moment of Doctor Who connection, lol. This time relating to River Song.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:50 pm
I still find it intriguing that my teacher had us get a Poetry Handbook for the British Romantic Lit. class. It just seems odd to me. I mean it seems like a good book so far of what we're assigned to read, but it just seems... out-of-place to me. *shrugs*
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:06 pm
Ah, this part seems to relate to my Creative Writing: Prose class. :)The first obvious difference between prose and poetry is that prose is printed (or written) within the confines of margins, while poetry is written in lines that do not necessarily pay any attention to the margins, especially the right margin.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:49 pm
I'm back. And done with my homework.
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:54 pm
Off to watch TV. Later.#f51379
#a51cba
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