| FA-232872-16 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Deborah Cosier Solomon | The Poem and the Garden: Rival Media in Early Modern England | 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016 | $50,400.00 | Deborah | Cosier | Solomon | | | | Auburn University at Montgomery | Montgomery | AL | 36117-7088 | USA | 2015 | British Literature | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 | A book-length study of the relationships between poetic craft and garden design in 16th- and 17th-century England.
This project explores how the major aesthetic conventions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry take shape through garden imagery. To place poetry in the garden and the garden in poetry was not just a reiteration of old metaphors; it represented a kind of decorum, a means of matching work to site in a way that could offer readers a rich array of multi-media allusions and varied (sometimes paradoxically varied) points of view. In order to demonstrate this aesthetic interchange between garden and lyric, the present study ranges through a number of generic spaces, from sixteenth-century plays and sonnet sequences to seventeenth-century pastoral modes. Drawing attention to the distinctively trans-media manifestations of garden and lyric art introduces new perspectives on the cultural value of form and its involvement in matters of genre, print technology, environment, and self-fashioning. |