Title: The Critique of Romantic Solipsism in Tennyson's 'The Palace of Art'
Abstract:I argue that Tennyson's ‘The Palace of Art’ (1832) represents a cultural crisis for the idea of poetry, in that in it Tennyson seeks to overcome the isolation, at once social and metaphysical, typical...I argue that Tennyson's ‘The Palace of Art’ (1832) represents a cultural crisis for the idea of poetry, in that in it Tennyson seeks to overcome the isolation, at once social and metaphysical, typically experienced by the Post-Romantic poet. I establish first that the poem systematically disrupts linear representation by confusing temporal and perspectival coherence, as a way of adumbrating the condition of existing outside a publicly negotiated space-time. I next relate these devices to Tennyson's critical reading of the isolation of the Romantic poet, as a preliminary to describing all the poem's devices as expressions of the desire to reduce the solitude of poetic creation by including the reader's space and time within the margins of the text. In this connexion I explore in particular Tennyson's exploitation, in the original published version of the poem, of footnotes in which the process of drafting the poem infiltrates its eventual appearance in the form of ghostly ‘discarded’ material.Read More
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-07-11
Language: en
Type: article
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