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Thomas Chatterton's Art : Experiments in Imagined History / Donald S. Taylor.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1570Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1979Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691614489
  • 9781400871384
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.6 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Seven Early Pieces: 1763-1764 -- II. The Imaginative Matrix: The Rowley World and its Documents, 1768-1769 -- III. The Rowleyan Works: Explorations in Heroic Modes, 1768-1769 -- IV. Satiric Worlds and Modes: 1769-1770 -- V. Imagined Places and Poetries: 1768-1770 -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Thomas Chatterton's fabrications-or "forgeries"-of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, his works have never before been the subject of a sustained serious and critical investigation that focused on his artistic achievement rather than on the legend and myth surrounding his melodramatic life. Donald Taylor's study provides a thorough analysis of Chatterton's poems and to place them in the context of the poetic and literary traditions that influenced him. Setting his analyses within the contexts of "historic," heroic, satiric, pastoral, and descriptive modes, the author considers each of Chatterton's major works as solutions to the literary problems the poet set for himself, thus tracing the literary history of Chatterton's artistic development as a sequence of subjects and literary modes explored. As Professor Taylor amply demonstrates, Thomas Chatterton's brief career embodies important features of the literary transition from the Augustans to the Romantics and, contrary to traditional assumptions, shows that the historical worlds Chatterton imagined have close ties to the century and sensibility against which he is assumed to have rebelled.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Seven Early Pieces: 1763-1764 -- II. The Imaginative Matrix: The Rowley World and its Documents, 1768-1769 -- III. The Rowleyan Works: Explorations in Heroic Modes, 1768-1769 -- IV. Satiric Worlds and Modes: 1769-1770 -- V. Imagined Places and Poetries: 1768-1770 -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter

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Thomas Chatterton's fabrications-or "forgeries"-of historical poems ostensibly written from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries have attracted a great deal of attention and discussion of their authenticity since the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, his works have never before been the subject of a sustained serious and critical investigation that focused on his artistic achievement rather than on the legend and myth surrounding his melodramatic life. Donald Taylor's study provides a thorough analysis of Chatterton's poems and to place them in the context of the poetic and literary traditions that influenced him. Setting his analyses within the contexts of "historic," heroic, satiric, pastoral, and descriptive modes, the author considers each of Chatterton's major works as solutions to the literary problems the poet set for himself, thus tracing the literary history of Chatterton's artistic development as a sequence of subjects and literary modes explored. As Professor Taylor amply demonstrates, Thomas Chatterton's brief career embodies important features of the literary transition from the Augustans to the Romantics and, contrary to traditional assumptions, shows that the historical worlds Chatterton imagined have close ties to the century and sensibility against which he is assumed to have rebelled.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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