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“…… God's Will be done. 122 I do not mean in any way to schematize or reduce Tennyson's emotions at the loss of his actual child. But to read child-as-poem in this passage is to witness a transformation made possible by the image of a stillborn child.…”

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The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry

Ruderman¹

2016

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This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and art. While recent historicist studies have documented the "freshness of experience" that childhood confers on nineteenth-century poetry and culture, this book draws on new formalist and psychoanalytic perspectives to rethink familiar concepts such as immortality, the sublime, and the death drive as well as forms and genres such as the pastoral, the ode, and the ballad. Ruderman establishes that infancy emerges as a unique structure of feeling simultaneously with new theories of lyric poetry at the end of the eighteenth century. He then explores the intertwining of poetic experimentation and infancy in Wordsworth,

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The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry

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