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The Influences of 16-17th Century Representations of the 'Virtuoso' on English Romantic Poetry

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00399
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
Research InstitutionInternational Christian University

Principal Investigator

Simons Christopher  国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 上級准教授 (80527143)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Keywordsロマン主義の英詩 / 近世初期の英詩 / ウィリアム・ワーズワース / ウィリアム・シェイクスピア / ウィリアム・バトラー・イェイツ / 魔術 / 詩学 / 英詩 / ロマン主義 / 近世英文学 / 劇 / 魔法 / 劇場 / 文芸 / 科学の歴史 / エドモンド・スペンサー / 近代初期 / 驚異の部屋 / 博物館
Outline of Research at the Start

This research will investigate how the development of the virtuoso (polymath) in the 16-17th centuries influenced later representations of the virtuoso in British Romantic poetry from 1798-1842. The project will develop our understanding of connections between a small group of authors including Shakespeare, Thomas Browne, Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and John Keats. A deeper understanding of the virtuoso will benefit global society, at a time when developed nations increasingly need thinkers and workers with skills in both the humanities and sciences to drive innovation.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research project revealed significant connections and continuities between representations of 'virtuoso' characters (polymaths or characters with unusual or supernatural interdisciplinary knowledge or skills) in early modern English verse drama and British Romantic-period literature. Although the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the Principal Investigator from using many overseas research resources including libraries and museums, the P.I. was able to make significant investigations using online resources, and through library research during one year of research leave in 2021-2022. At academic conferences on Zoom or in person (after 2022) the P.I. gave conference papers and plenary lectures on the research topic, and published several peer-reviewed journal articles based on these papers. The P.I. wrote a research monograph that demonstrates the operation of 'magical poetics' in poetry and drama from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The research developed a model of magical poetics (representations of magical theory and practice through poetry), from the 16th to 19th centuries. Identifying continuities in magical poetics helps us understand how and why poetry in different historical periods uses similar poetic forms.

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (34 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Journal Article (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Open Access: 5 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results) Presentation (18 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 12 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Peter Bell’s Professions2023

    • Author(s)
      Simons Christopher
    • Journal Title

      Romanticism

      Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Pages: 226-238

    • DOI

      10.3366/rom.2023.0609

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Two Poems2023

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: journal of the short poem

      Volume: 23 Pages: 114-115

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Remembered and Forgotten Violence of the Present2023

    • Author(s)
      Simons, Christopher
    • Journal Title

      Peace Reports, Peace Research Institute, International Christian University

      Volume: 21 Pages: 1-2

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Two Poems2022

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: journal of the short poem

      Volume: 22 Pages: 133-134

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Literature and Violence2022

    • Author(s)
      Simons, Christopher
    • Journal Title

      ICU Guidebook, International Christian University

      Volume: 2024 Pages: 59-59

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Wordsworth's Spenserian Poem2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      Charles Lamb Bulletin

      Volume: 173 Pages: 43-77

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Wordsworth's Spenserian Poem2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, Christopher
    • Journal Title

      The Charles Lamb Bulletin

      Volume: 173 Pages: 43-77

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Poems2020

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: journal of the short poem

      Volume: 17 Pages: 82-84

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Four Poems2020

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: journal of the short poem

      Volume: 16 Pages: 73-76

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Poems2020

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      World Haiku

      Volume: 16 Pages: 41-41

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Poems2020

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: The Journal of the Short Poem

      Volume: 16 Pages: 73-76

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Haiku2020

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      World Haiku

      Volume: 16 Pages: 41-41

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Poems2019

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      NOON: The Journal of the Short Poem

      Volume: 15 Pages: 18-20

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Three Haiku2019

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Journal Title

      World Haiku

      Volume: 15 Pages: 59-59

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Poetry and Violence: Home and Away2023

    • Author(s)
      Christopher Simons
    • Organizer
      Poetry and Violence
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Magical poetics and masculinity in Wordsworth’s The Egyptian Maid2023

    • Author(s)
      Christopher Simons
    • Organizer
      Wordsworth Summer Conference
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Isobar Press Ten-Year Anniversary Reading2023

    • Author(s)
      C. E. J. Simons
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Lyric to Song Song to Lyrics: Song Forms and Repetitive Forms in Lyric Poetry2023

    • Author(s)
      C. E. J. Simons
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Rhetorical Figures of Repetition in English Poetry2023

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Fukushima Narratives2023

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Peace Research Institute, International Christian University
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Two Kinds of Magic: William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, 1798-18142022

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      ICU Global Challenge Forum
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Wizards of the Lakes: Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Supernatural Poems2022

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      ICU Global Challenge Forum
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Three Centuries of Virtuosi: Poetic Magic from Shakespeare to Yeats2022

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      ICU Global Challenge Forum
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Metrical Magic: Supernatural Spacetimes in Coleridge’s Christabel2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Clare Hall Colloquium, Clare Hall, Cambridge
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Magic Inverse: Magic in Contemporary Poetry2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Isobar Press Book Launch2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Casting Spells: The Metrical Magic of Poetry from Shakespeare to Yeats2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      ICU Global Challenge Forum
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Virtuosity in Verse: the Cross-Disciplinary Poem2020

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Making it Up: Conflict and Peacebuilding in Science Fiction Filmmaking2020

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.; Gamarra, Elizabeth; Narushima Toshiki
    • Organizer
      Geneva Peace Week 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Tradition and Innovation in Wordsworth’s Narrative Poetry: Wordsworth’s Spenserian Poem2019

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, Christopher
    • Organizer
      Wordsworth Conference Foundation
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Draft Z: The Revision Process as Poetic Vision2019

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Year’s Work at Isobar Press2019

    • Author(s)
      SIMONS, C. E. J.
    • Organizer
      Japan Writers Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Flight Risk: Contemporary Poetry2021

    • Author(s)
      Simons, C. E. J.
    • Total Pages
      78
    • Publisher
      Isobar Press (Tokyo and London)
    • ISBN
      9784907359362
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Peacebuilding through Science-Fiction Filmmaking

    • URL

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RWLPBAK_JU

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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