This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.
The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Blake—are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume, ...
These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.
Rich selection of 123 poems by six great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems).
This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets.
... 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 ...
The Sonnet and the Major English Romantic Poets
This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.
The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology
On 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.
Everest (modern literature, U. of Liverpool) presents the lives and careers of the major English Romantic poets--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron--in relation to the larger historical forces and...