English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the best introductions to the subject. This edition includes updated material in the light of recent work in Romanticism and Romantic poetry. The book discusses the concerns that linked the Romantic poets, from their responses to the political and social upheavals around them to their interest in the poet's visionary and prophetic role. It includes helpful and authoritative discussions of figures such as Blake, Clare, Coleridge, Crabbe, Keats, Scott, Shelley and Wordsworth. |
Contents
Texts and Contexts | |
Godwin | |
Preoccupations and Ways of Reading Them | |
Interpretation | |
Some Poets | |
Blake | |
Wordsworth | |
Coleridge | |
Byron | |
Shelley | |
Keats | |
General Bibliographies | |
Individual Authors | |
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Ancient Mariner beauty becomes Biographia Literaria Blake Blake's Book Byron Cambridge Canto celebrates Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Christabel Clare cloud Coleridge Coleridge's contrast Crabbe Criticism death delight described Dorothy Wordsworth dreams earth edited Endymion English Romantic Essays example experience external world feeling figure French Revolution Godwin heart heaven hope human idea ideal imagination important individual John Clare Keats Keats's kind Kubla Khan Lamb landscape language Letters literary living London Lyrical Ballads M. H. Abrams Milton mind moral mysterious nature night Oxford pain Paradise Percy Bysshe Shelley poem poet's poetic poetry political Prelude Prometheus Unbound prophetic reader reading relationship Romantic period Romantic poets Romanticism Rousseau Scott seen sense Shelley Shelley's soul Southey spirit stanza strange sublime suggests symbol thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey truth verse vision visionary voice vols William Wordsworth words writing written