Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Note to the Reader......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Critical Approaches......Page 15
Methods......Page 18
The Literary Context: ‘An Old Parnassian Dynasty’......Page 26
The Anonymity of Coterie Writing: The Classicism of Arzamas......Page 28
Dialogues with the Dead and the Anxiety of Influence......Page 32
Tradition and Originality (‘To Zhukovsky’, 1816)......Page 39
2. Invention and Genius......Page 47
The Romantic Debate......Page 48
Poetic Theory and the Aesthetic of Invention and Inspiration......Page 51
Inspiration......Page 61
3. The Meaning of Beauty......Page 75
The Idea of Beauty......Page 76
The Sublime and the Reinvention of Boileau......Page 79
Romantic Hellenism......Page 87
The Plastic Arts and the Platonic Ideal......Page 93
From Classical to Romantic......Page 98
4. A Reticent Imagination......Page 101
The Power of the Imagination: Galich, Coleridge, Hazlitt......Page 103
Radicalism and the Imagination......Page 120
5. Nature and Romantic Subjectivity......Page 130
Nature in Pushkin’s Early Verse......Page 132
Romantic Intimations: ‘The Orb of Day has Set’ (1820) and ‘To the Sea’ (1824)......Page 137
‘Autumn’ (1833) and the Mind of the Poet......Page 147
The General Law: ‘I visit once again… ’ (1835) and Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’......Page 157
6. Genius and the Commerce of Poetry......Page 171
Profit Motive: Poetic Labour and the Book Market......Page 172
The Rights of Authorial Identity......Page 183
The Economics of Inspiration: ‘Conversation between a Bookseller and a Poet’ (1824)......Page 188
The Prophecy of ‘André Chénier’ (1825)......Page 199
Art for Art’s Sake and Poetic Egotism......Page 210
The Purpose of the Poet......Page 214
Protean Pushkin......Page 227
7. The Hero......Page 230
The Philosopher Hero and Classical Emulation......Page 231
The Action Hero: Napoleon......Page 243
Heroic Typology and Enlightenment Historiography......Page 251
‘The Hero’ (1830)......Page 259
Painting the Heroic Ideal: ‘The Commander’ (1835)......Page 272
Alienation and Independence......Page 286
8. Body and Soul......Page 291
The Science of Feeling......Page 292
Epicurean Masters: Lucretius, Voltaire, and Diderot......Page 295
The Meaning of the Passions......Page 305
The Libertine......Page 317
Poetic Mortality and Negative Capability......Page 329
Stoic Fate and Friendship......Page 339
Appendix......Page 352
Bibliography......Page 356
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I......Page 397
K......Page 398
M......Page 399
O......Page 400
P......Page 401
R......Page 407
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W......Page 410
Z......Page 411