Oscar Wilde

 

 

Keats' Sonnet on Blue

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DURING my tour in America I happened one evening to find myself in Louisville, Kentucky. The subject I had selected to speak on was the Mission of Art in the Nineteenth Century, and in the course of my lecture I had occasion to quote Keats' Sonnet on Blue as an example of the poet's delicate sense of colour-harmonies. When my lecture was concluded there came round to see me a lady of middle age, with a sweet gentle manner and a most musical voice. She introduced herself to me as Mrs. Speed, the daughter of George Keats, and invited me to come and examine the Keats manuscripts in her possession. I spent most of the next day with her, reading the letters of Keats to her father, some of which were at that time unpublished, poring over torn yellow leaves and faded scraps of paper, and wondering at the little Dante in which Keats had written those marvellous notes on Milton. Some months afterwards when I was in California I received a letter from Mrs. Speed asking my acceptance of the original manuscript of the sonnet which I had quoted in my lecture. This manuscript I have had reproduced here, as it seems to me to possess much psychological interest. It shows us the conditions that preceded the perfected form, the gradual growth, not of the conception but of the expression, and the workings of that spirit of selection which is the secret of style. In the case of poetry, as in the case of the other arts, what may appear to be simply technicalities [84] of method are in their essence spiritual, not mechanical, and although, in all lovely work, what concerns us is the ultimate form, not the conditions that necessitate that form, yet the preference that precedes perfection, the evolution of the beauty, and the mere making of the music, have, if not their artistic value, at least their value to the artist.

 

 

 

 

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Literatur: Wilde

Brandmeyer, Rudolf: Poetiken der Lyrik: Von der Normpoetik zur Autorenpoetik. In: Handbuch Lyrik. Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Hrsg. von Dieter Lamping. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart 2016, S. 2-15.

Bristow, Joseph (Hrsg.): The Fin-de-Siècle poem. English Literary Culture and the 1890s. Athens 2005.

Evangelista, Stefano (Hrsg.): The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. London 2010.

Fitzsimons, Eleanor: In My Heaven He Walks Eternally with Shakespeare and the Greeks: Oscar Wilde and John Keats. In: The Wildean. A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies 53 (2018 July), S. 22-32.

Foss, Chris: Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic. In: Wilde Discoveries. Traditions, Histories, Archives. Hrsg. von Joseph Bristow u.a. Toronto u.a. 2013, S. 43-64.

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Lipking, Lawrence: Poet-critics. In: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Bd. 7: Modernism and the New Criticism. Hrsg. von A. Walton Litz. Cambridge u.a. 2000, S. 439-467.

Martino, Pierpaolo: WILDE NOW. Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde. Cham 2023.

Matthews, Geoffrey M. (Hrsg.): Keats. The Critical Heritage. London 1971 (= The Critical Heritage Series).

Mendelssohn, Michèle: Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford 2018.

O'Neill, Michael (Hrsg.): John Keats in Context. Cambridge 2017

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Literatur: The Century Guild Hobby Horse

Claes, Koenraad: The Late-Victorian Little Magazine. Edinburgh 2018.
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Codell, Julie F.: The Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1884-1894. In: Victorian Periodicals Review 16.2 (1983), S. 43-53.
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Evans, Stuart / Liddiard, Jean: Arts and Crafts Pioneers. The Hobby Horse Men and their Century Guild. London 2021.

Hart, Imogen: 'The Arts and Crafts Movement': The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884–94), The Evergreen (1895–7), and The Acorn (1905–6). In: The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Hrsg. von Peter Brooker u.a. Bd. 1: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955. Oxford 2009, S. 120-141.

 

 

Literatur: Sonett

Allen, Michael J. (Hrsg.): The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets. 5 Bde. London 2011.

Borgstedt, Thomas: Topik des Sonetts. Gattungstheorie und Gattungsgeschichte. Tübingen 2009 (= Frühe Neuzeit, 138).

Cousins, Anthony D. / Howarth, Peter (Hrsg.): The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. Cambridge u.a. 2011.

Crandall, Charles H. (Hrsg.): Representative Sonnets by American Poets. Boston 1890.
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Degott, Bertrand / Garrigues, Pierre (Hrsg.): Le Sonnet au risque du sonnet. Actes du colloque international de Besançon (8, 9 et 10 décembre 2004). Paris 2006.

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Feldman, Paula R. / Robinson, Daniel (Hrsg.): A Century of Sonnets. The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850. New York u.a. 1999.

Gotterbarm, Mario u.a. (Hrsg.): Sonett-Gemeinschaften. Die soziale Referentialität des Sonetts. Paderborn 2019.

Hänselmann, Matthias C. (Hrsg.): Sonette über das Sonett. Anthologie zum Metasonett in der deutschen Dichtung. Passau 2021.

Higginson, Thomas W. / Bigelow, E. H. (Hrsg.): American Sonnets. Boston 1890.
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Kemp, Friedhelm: Das europäische Sonett. 2 Bde. Göttingen 2002 (= Münchener Universitätsschriften; Münchener komparatistische Studien, 2).

Kircher, Hartmut (Hrsg.): Deutsche Sonette. Stuttgart 1984 (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 9934).

Müller, Timo: The African American Sonnet. A Literary History. Jackson 2018.

Nickel, Beatrice: Weltwissen und Sonettistik in der Frühen Neuzeit. Frankreich, Spanien, England und Deutschland. Tübingen 2012.

Petzold, Jochen: A History of the Sonnet in England: "A little world made cunningly". Berlin 2021.

Phelan, Joseph: The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet. Basingstoke u.a. 2005.

Pötters, Wilhelm: Die Entstehung des Sonetts. Dichtung und Mathematik am Hofe Kaiser Friedrichs II. In: Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift 63 (2013), S. 427-462.

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Ughetto, André: Le sonnet, une forme européenne de poésie. Paris 2005.

Van Remoortel, Marianne: Lives of the Sonnet, 1787-1895. Genre, Gender, and Criticism. Burlington, VT 2011.

Wittbrodt, Andreas: Art. Sonett. In: Handbuch der literarischen Gattungen. Hrsg. von Dieter Lamping. Stuttgart 2009, S. 688-696.

 

 

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