ENGL 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: William Lisle Bowles, Biographia Literaria, Lyrical Ballads
25 Sep 2018
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Won prize for his poem in latin on the siege of gibraltar. 1789, to cheer self up after two broken engagements, writes 14 sonnets while travelling. 1806 scholarly edition of pope, with biographical notes. Other interests include antiquarianism, writing on crime, education, and the condition of the poor. An argument over an earlier writer that defined what romantic authors thought poetry ought to e and ought not to be. Chandler suggests that they do(cid:374)(cid:859)t hate pope (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they(cid:859)(cid:396)e o(cid:373)a(cid:374)ti(cid:272)s; they(cid:859)(cid:396)e o(cid:373)a(cid:374)ti(cid:272)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)isgi(cid:448)i(cid:374)gs a(cid:271)out. Timeline of pope controversy: i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1011)(cid:1009)(cid:1010): joseph wa(cid:396)to(cid:374)(cid:859)s essay on the writings and genius of pope, (cid:862)p(cid:396)aised pope as a (cid:373)o(cid:396)alist a(cid:374)d (cid:448)e(cid:396)sifie(cid:396) (cid:271)ut (cid:396)aised se(cid:396)ious (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out the ulti(cid:373)ate (cid:448)alue of pope(cid:859)s a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. (cid:863) In 1781, samuel johnson thought to write his life of pope as rebuttal. Coleridge loves them and in his biographia literaria, he (cid:449)(cid:396)ites of bo(cid:449)les i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) the (cid:1005)(cid:1011)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)s disputes o(cid:448)e(cid:396) pope(cid:859)s (cid:448)alue a(cid:374)d bo(cid:449)les(cid:859)s depa(cid:396)tu(cid:396)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373)
