델라 크루스카니즘과 메리 로빈슨

국문 초록 (Abstract)

18세기말 영국에서 델라 크루스카니즘이라는 이름으로 활동한 시인들은 대중적인 인기를 끌었다. 하지만 William Gifford등을 비롯한 보수적인 문학가들이 지나치게 선정적이고 대중적이라는 이유로 혹평을 하였고, 이로 인해 이들의 업적은 영문학계에서 오랫동안 사장되었다가 최근에 학자들의 관심을 끌기 시작했다. Robert Merry와 Hannah Cowley가 중심이 되어 이루어진 델라 크루스카니즘에 대한 Mary Robinson의 영향을 연구하고자 한다. 당시 대표적인 여류 시인 중의 한 사람이었던 Robinson에게 델라 크루스카니즘이 어떤 영향을 끼쳤으며, 로빈슨은 그 밖에 다른 델라 크루스칸들과 어떤 시적인 차이점이 있는지 연구하였다. 그녀의 시 “Sappho and Phaon”을 중심으로 로빈슨의 시학을 분석하여, 그녀가 영국 낭만주의에 끼친 영향도 평가했다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Despite the fact that Della Cruscanism was very popular in the late eighteenth century of England, literary critics have ignored it since it was blasted by William Gifford in his work The Baviad. The movement was initiated by Robert Merry and Hannah Cowley under the pen name of Della Crusca and Anna Matilda respectively. They sent their playful love poems to each other in the newspaper The World. After some minor frictions over their ideas of poems, they signed off and then Mary Robinson sent a love poem to Merry using the pen name of Laura. Della Cruscanism can be characterized by their emotional, spontaneous, improvisational, theatrical aspects, but Robinson, although she praised and accepted Merry’s poetics, seems to have gotten beyond Della Cruscanism. She wrote Sappho and Phaon in Petrarchan sonnet, which was considered as masculine form because of its challenging aspects. In this work, she seems to show off her ability to accomplish this challenge as a woman poet. Unlike the original work by Ovid, her work deals with a dilemma of fancy and reason as poetic functions in solving human sufferings. In other words, in poetry she tries to tackle human problems in a serious way, unlike Cowley who sees poetry as a place where she can play a game of words and treats it as a joke.