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Living forms :

0791455610

0791455629

0791487679

1417536004

9780791455616

9780791455623

9780791487679

9781417536009

9780791487679

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Living forms :

[Book]

Romantics and the monumental figure /

Bruce Haley.

Albany :

State University of New York Press,

©2003.

1 online resource (ix, 307 pages) :

illustrations

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.

Thoughts on Nelson's monument in St. Paul's -- Imaginary museum -- History's seen and unseen forms: Peacock and Shelley -- Coleridge's Shakespeare gallery -- Hazlitt's portraits: the informing principle -- Symbolic forms: the sleeping children -- Wordsworth's Prelude: objects that endure -- Fortune's rhetoric: allegories for the dead -- The mourner turned to stone: Byron and Hemans -- "Those speechless shapes": Shelley's Rome -- Keat's temples and shrines.

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"Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, having no adequate verbal explanatory text, are vulnerable to having their meanings erased by time. The author explores a variety of such representations and responses to them, including Coleridge's Shakespeare lectures, Hazlitt's essays on portraits, Keats's poems on mythic and sculpted figures, meditations by Byron's Childe Harold on the monuments of Italy, Felicia Hemans's verses on monuments to and by women, and Shelley's poems and letters on figures from Italy, Egypt, and other antique lands. Haley argues that in what has been called the "museum age," Romantics sought aesthetically to frame these figures as "living forms," mental images capable of realization in alternate modes or forms."--Jacket.

Living forms.

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Architecture and literature-- History-- 19th century.

Art and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Literature and history-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Monuments in literature.

Romanticism-- Great Britain.

Sculpture in literature.

Statues in literature.

Architecture and literature.

Art and literature.

English literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literature and history.

Monuments in literature.

Romanticism.

Sculpture in literature.

Statues in literature.

Great Britain.

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LIT-- 004120

Haley, Bruce,1933-

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