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The Burden of Rhyme Professor Naomi Levine

The Burden of Rhyme By Professor Naomi Levine

The Burden of Rhyme by Professor Naomi Levine

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The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History by Professor Naomi Levine

A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies.

The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the New Critics, and as it still is for us) a mere technique or ahistorical form. Instead, it carried vivid historical fantasies derived from early studies of world literature. Naomi Levine argues that rhymes association with the advent of literary modernity and with a repertoire of medievalist, Italophilic, and orientalist myths about love, loss, and poetic longing made it a sensitive historiographic instrument. Victorian poets used rhyme to theorize both literary history and the most elusive effects of aesthetic form. This Victorian formalism, which insisted on the significance of origins, was a precursor to and a challenge for twentieth-century methods. In uncovering the rich relationship between Victorian poetic forms and a forgotten style of literary-historical thought, The Burden of Rhyme reveals the unacknowledged influence of Victorian poeticsand its repudiationon the development of modern literary criticism.

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In The Burden of Rhyme, Levine elegantly and convincingly lifts the burden we labor under when we believe that formalist and historicist approaches to poetry are opposed. She does so by doing a deep dive into the sometimes quirky, sometimes fantastic Victorian search for the historical origins of poetic forms. The Victorians, she reveals, viewed forms as the manifestations of history, and in no case was that clearer than in their love of rhyme, which embodied the history of love itself. Revelatory and relevant to all scholars and readers of poetry and of the history of literary criticism, The Burden of Rhyme speaks to anyone interested in how we might, as Levine says, reimagine the relationship between scholarly knowledge and the ineffable charisma of a poem. * Adela Pinch, University of Michigan *
This impassioned and creative scholarship gives us access to a felt history of rhyme in Victorian poetry that, its author argues, was displaced by the formalism of the New Critical project. We reconnect with a rich nineteenth-century culture of rhyme, a culture whose deep scholarship located rhyme in European and non-European histories aliketroubadour, Arabic, Norse, Greek. Above all, this lost tradition valued affect and saw rhyme as the vehicle of desire, feeling, love. Levines work will transform our reading of Victorian poetry. * Isobel Armstrong, University of London *
This trimly learned, compellingly written study will earn admiring thanks from scholars pursuing a broad range of interests: British Victorian poetry, the European practice of literary historiography on either side of 1800, twentieth-century criticism and theory in the anglophone academy, and the work of poetic rhyming as a once pervasive, if now largely unsuspected, enactment of literary modernity dating from the Middle Ages into our time. * Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia *
Levine breaks new ground in studies of Victorian poetry and literary history with her conceptualization ofgenetic formalisma nineteenth-century theory and practice of poetry that looked to romantic poetrys transhistorical, multicultural developmental processes as part of poetic form. Levine dares to see feeling, both the readers necessary feeling into poetry understood in this unfamiliar way and rhymes feeling after its partner rhyme, as integral dimensions of reading Victorian poetryespecially since human desire and couplings were understood as inhabiting Arabist and Troubadour poetry that introduced rhyme to modern poetry. The Burden of Rhymeis without question the most important study of Victorian poetry to appear in more than a decade. * Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University *

About Professor Naomi Levine

Naomi Levine is assistant professor of English at Yale University. This is her first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Genetic Formalism: A Theory and Its Histories
1: Old Historicism, New Criticism, and the Feeling in Form
2: Arthur Hallam and the Origins of Rhyme

Part II: Historiographic Forms
3: Alfred Tennysons Lyric Stanza
4: Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Unblank Verse
5: William Morriss Fleshly Rhymes
6: Coventry Patmores Passionate Pause
Conclusion: The Spirit of Romance
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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NGR9780226834979
9780226834979
0226834972
The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History by Professor Naomi Levine
Professor Naomi Levine
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The University of Chicago Press
2024-09-03
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