TY - BOOK AU - Gurton-Wachter,Lily TI - Watchwords: Romanticism and the poetics of attention SN - 9780804798761 AV - PR590 .W383 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - English poetry KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Authors and readers KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Attention KW - Romanticism KW - Poetics KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : attention's disciplines --; Reading, a double attention --; The poetics of alarm and the passion of listening --; Bent earthwards : Wordsworth's poetics of the interval --; "That something living is abroad" : missing the point in Beachy Head --; Attention's aches in Keats's Hyperion poems --; Afterword : just looking; 2; b N2 - This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including medicine, aesthetics, theology, ethics, pedagogy, and politics). Within this wartime context, the Romantic aesthetic tradition appears as a response to a crisis in attention caused by demands on both soldiers and civilians to keep watch. Close formal readings of the poetry of Blake, Coleridge, Cowper, Keats, (Charlotte) Smith, and Wordsworth, in conversation with research into Enlightenment philosophy and political and military discourses, suggest the variety of forces competing for--or commanding--attention in the period. This new framework for interpreting Romanticism and its legacy illuminates what turns out to be an ongoing tradition of war literature that, rather than give testimony to or represent warfare, uses rhythm and verse to experiment with how and what we attend to during times of war.--Publisher website UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1160586&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -