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Not "Only Sleeping": The Beatles and a Neo-Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 44, Number 2, June 2011
- pp. 137-152
- 10.1353/mos.2011.a440547
- Article
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Abstract
This essay explores both the tension between indolence and creativity in selected Beatles lyrics and a corresponding connection to British Romanticism. In addition to discussing more general affinities between mid-period Beatles songs and Romantic poetry, the essay suggests how poetry and popular music reflect two centuries of shifting attitudes toward indolence.
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