On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word /

In this ambitious and imaginative book Angela Leighton examines the legacy of the word 'form' from Victorian aestheticism to the present. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which, however familiar and well-worn, seems to contai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leighton, Angela, 1954-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 Oxford ; New York : 2007
Subjects:	1800 - 1999 1800-1999 19th century 20th century Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism Form (Aesthetics) Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Literary form Poetics Aesthetics, Modern American poetry English poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc

Table of Contents:

1. Form's Matter: A Retrospective
2. Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes
3. Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism
4. Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-Forming Style
5. Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics
6. Just a Word: On Woolf
7. Yeats's Feet
8. Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs
9. W. S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear
10. Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher
11. Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson
12. Nothing, but
1 Form's Matter: A Retrospective 1
2 Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes 30
3 Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism 55
4 Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-forming Style 74
5 Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics 99
6 Just a Word: On Woolf 125
7 Yeats's Feet 144
8 Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs 170
9 W. S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear 198
10 Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher 220
11 Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson 242
12 Nothing, but: An Afterword 263
1 Form's matter : a retrospective
2. Art for art : on pots, crocks, lyres, and flutes
3. Touching forms : Tennyson and aestheticism
4. Aesthetic conditions : Pater's re-forming style
5. Seeing nothing : Vernon Lee's ghostly aesthetics
6. Just a word : on Woolf
7. Yeats's feet
8. Wallace Stevens' eccentric souvenirs
9. W. S. Graham : in the mind's ear
10. Forms of elegy : Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher
11. Elegies of form : Bishop, Plach, Stevenson
12. Nothing, but : an afterword.

On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word /

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