Watchwords : Romanticism and the poetics of attention / Lily Gurton-Wachter.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gurton-Wachter, Lily, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Attention > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Poetics.
Attention.
Authors and readers.
English poetry.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : attention's disciplines
  • Reading, a double attention
  • The poetics of alarm & the passion of listening
  • Bent earthwards : Wordsworth's poetics of the interval
  • "That something living is abroad" : missing the point in Beachy Head
  • Attention's aches in Keats's Hyperion poems
  • Afterword : just looking.