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The Poetics of Disappointment offers nothing less than a complete revision of our understanding of romantic poetry. By examining the lineage of Wordsworth, Shelley, Stevens, and Ashbery, Quinney challenges Harold Blooms identification of major romantic poems as crisis lyrics and questions his idea that the disappointment these poets explore is compensated by their celebration of a heroic self. Rather, Quinney argues, the form of disappointment examined by the romantic poet often finds him bewildered and oppressed, in a state beyond the simple failure of literary ambition or romantic love.Beginning with Wordsworths major autobiographical poems, including Tintern Abbey and the Intimations Ode, Quinney identifies a strain of romantic and postromantic lyric that devotes itself to capturing a disoriented sadness, a disappointment in which the self is isolated and frozen. She considers poems by Shelley, Stevens, and Ashbery, which she argues concern not specific disappointments but a psychic state of being disappointed. According to Quinney, an experience of loss has fractured and paralyzed the formerly hopeful self because that self seems in retrospect arrogant and na?ve&emdash;-or, as Ashbery puts it, the dream sustaining all other dreams dies.Quinneys critical prose is wonderfully fluent, conversant with theory but never relying on jargon to make her complex and sensitive argument. Drawing on the psychological insights of Freud and Klein and on the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Quinney sees in her paradigm of disappointment a sophisticated representation of self that goes beyond mere pathos or melancholia. The history of romantic and postromantic poetry, she finds, is not a history of ambitious self-assertion but a collective testimony of chagrin over the broken promises of the self.

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title:The Poetics of Disappointment : Wordsworth to Ashbery
author:Quinney, Laura.
publisher:University of Virginia Press
isbn10 | asin:0813918588
print isbn13:9780813918587
ebook isbn13:9780585196541
language:English
subjectEnglish poetry--19th century--History and criticism, Disappointment in literature, American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry--Psychological aspects, Frustration in literature, Self in literature.
publication date:1999
lcc:PR585.D57Q56 1999eb
ddc:821.009/353
subject:English poetry--19th century--History and criticism, Disappointment in literature, American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Poetry--Psychological aspects, Frustration in literature, Self in literature.
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The Poetics of Disappointment
Wordsworth to Ashbery
Laura Quinney
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA
CHARLOTTESVILLE AND LONDON
Page iv
The University Press of Virginia
1999 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First published 1999
Picture 2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quinney, Laura.
The poetics of disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery/Laura
Quinney.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8139-1858-8 (alk. paper)
1. English poetry 19th century History and criticism.
2. Disappointment in literature. 3. American poetry 20th century
History and criticism. 4. Poetry Psychological aspects.
5. Frustration in literature. 6. Self in literature. I. Title.
PZ7.B43485wh 1999Picture 3Picture 4Picture 598-55128
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FOR BILLY AND DANIEL
Page vii
Contents
Preface,
ix
Acknowledgments,
xv
A Note on Citation,
xvii
Introduction,
1
1
Wordsworth: The Guise of Hope,
20
2
Shelley: A Love in Desolation Masked,
66
3
Stevens: Last Thoughts of the Unfinished Thinker,
95
4
Ashbery: The Soul Is Not a Soul,
136
Afterword,
171
Notes,
177
Bibliography,
191
Index,
197

Page ix
Preface
THIS BOOK MAKES an argument for a thematic continuity from Words-worth to Ashbery. Neither this argument per se nor this lineage of authors is new. Whatever novelty the book has to offer lies in its description of what the poets share. I advance an account of romanticism without consolations. In the conventional version of romanticism and its legacy, the loss of vitality and self-esteem bewailed in major first-person poems is surreptitiously compensated by a gain in intellectual or artistic entitlement; in the account given here, the losses are subtly compounded, moving up the levels into reaches of ontological catastrophe where restitution is no longer possible. The pleasures of the self are obliterated rather than solemnized, and the self disappointed with its portion is simultaneously stripped of the comfort of art. This rereading of romanticism turns in particular on a rereading of Wordsworth, because Wordsworth is credited with inaugurating the romantic celebration of the self. As I understand it, however, the reverse is true: rather than embracing the riches of the inner life, he is often bewildered and oppressed by self-disenchantment.
Disappointment is the name I give to the state of the self estranged from the hopes of selfhood. The meaning of disappointment may seem obvious enough, if it is taken to be simply the frustration of wishes or expectations. Yet what I am isolating under this name failure, defeat, and mortification signifies a more complex and traumatic experience. For it is disappointment as a distinct, fearsome psychological state a twilight of paralysis that the preromantic, romantic, and postromantic lyric portrays. Poems about this form of disappointment are not poems about the failure of literary ambition or romantic love; they are about a more generalized and deeper frustration of eros, in which the self is frozen and isolated, has lost all purchase for its continuing resources, and is in fact humiliated both in itself and in its idea of what it means to be a subject.
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