"This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley--as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry"--
... they see – So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? 11. THOMAS MOORE Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Where Pleasure lies carelessly ...
This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats.
This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets.
Keats and Chapman's Homer “Intensity” is a word we associate with Keats, who invoked it as the highest virtue of literature and ... fainting as he touch'd the shore, He dropp'd his sinewy arms: his knees no more Perform'd their office, ...
Over 130 poems by 23 poets, including Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Tieck, Heine, Nietzsche, many others. New literal English translations on facing pages. Introduction.
The Romantic poets believed that the selection and arrangement of poems into collections were important steps in the poetic process. From the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Milton, Fraistat finds...
Love by Night begins with anxious hesitation and nervous attraction, grows into tender affection, blossoms into passionate love, delves deep into whimsical dreams, and finally builds an image of an idyllic future together, as the reader ...
8 Richard L. Hills, Papermaking in Britain 1488–1988: A Short History (London: Athlone, 1988). 9 Paul Fritz and David Williams (eds), The Triumph of Culture: 18th Century Perspectives (Toronto: Hakkert, 1972); J. H. Plumb, ...
by using pre-romantic occasional poetry as a defamiliarizing device through which we might become newly aware of how romantic ideologies dominate current attitudes to poetry, culture and identity.2 I want to begin, though, ...
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