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Offering a new thesis for why so many modern English poems begin with a lonely wanderer experiencing a private emotion, Dolan (rhetoric, U. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) argues that the modern lyric poem evolved as an adaptation to the demand for truth in poetry by post-Reformation English readers. That demand, he says, led to a preference for poems grounded in verifiable public occasions such as deaths, battles, and weddings, but by the middle of the 18th century the notion of poetic occasion had broadened to include the death of strangers and unverifiable mental events. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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John Dolan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago.
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'This most readable study of literary history not only reveals the well springs of Romanticism in eighteenth-century poetry but, like all thoughtful rhetorical analyses, sheds new light on writers and readers, on their creative and interpretative impulses.' - Professor Thomas O. Sloane, University of California, Berkeley
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0312220944
- ISBN 13 9780312220945
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages219
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Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth
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