This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints
... 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 groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.
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.
The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states ...
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 is an innovative study with significant implications for contemporary critical and theoretical writing. The authors contend that Bowen's work calls for a radically new conception of criticism and theory - and of the novel itself.
Sabin, English Romanticism, pp. 23–24, 35–39. Sabin contrasts the definitions of love given in the Encyclopédie and Johnson's Dictionary. 29. Sabin, English Romanticism, p. 26. Her translations are those of the Penguin edition (trans.
This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can ...
In this volume the finest works of the first generation of Romantic Poets—Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge—are assembled in an accessible and yet scholarly manner, together with a selection of contemporary criticism by tradition ...
Coleridge ostensibly presents Bowles as a model of achieved balance between a series of binary oppositions , principally those relating to the mind / body or the human / natural divides . And , of course , as Hélène Cixous points out ...