On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word

by Angela Leighton

Book Overview

What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199551936
• ISBN13: 9780199551934
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"