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Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best-loved, most widely read, and most frequently studied genres for two cen-turies and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and his-torical contexts.
The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake, and Shelley – and including less familiar figures as well.
INTRODUCTION: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1. Origins (i) Revolution and Romantic Vision (ii) A New Style and a New Spirit (iii) ‘And All Things In Himself’: Romantic Platonism 2. The Romantic Poets In Context (i) The First Generation (ii) A Gap (iii) The Second Generation (iv) The Sense of an Ending THE POETRY I. Romantic Hallmarks 1.
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
poetry/major non-fiction prose The works below are available online as electronic texts or in the following anthologies: British Literature, 1780-1830 (eds. Anne K. Mellor & Richard E. Matlak), the Longman Anthology of British
Romanticism has to do with a fundamental state of mind, with patterns of ontological and normative commitments. One can think of it as the state of mind out of which Romantic poetry is generated, or as the state of mind toward which Romantic poetry moves, or perhaps even as both.
ROMANTIC POETRY By Hans Eichner IN THE LAST QUARTER of the eighteenth century, the adjective romantisch was a vague and fashionable word denoting the qualities of the unusual, exotic, adventurous, incredible and fantastic. In the last few years of the century, Friedrich Schlegel made it one of his favorite
ROMANTIC POETRY. URBANIZATION AND ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY. ization itself. The works of the Romantic poets are popularly considered in a rural context and often understood as hostile to urbanization – one of the most pro-found social transformat.
explores the visual imagery of ancient Egyptian poetry through New Kingdom wall paintings. The accompanying texts present excerpts of love poems, reflecting the gallery panel and labels at the time of the exhibition. In order to view each facsimile’s record on The Met’s website, click on the image in the catalogue.
Romantic poetry and antiquity. In “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820), Thomas Love Peacock archly com-plained that contemporary poetry was absurdly derivative of ancient models of inspiration and composition: “While the historian and the philosopher are advancing in, and accelerating, the progress of knowledge, the poet is wallowing in the ...
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats are the notable British Romantic poets. Nature, religious fervor, emotional response to beauty, and Ancient Greek aesthetics, are some of the common themes in their work. Note that each Romantic poet had his own style and emphasized.
ROMANTIC UNITY AND ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY L. J. Swingle, University of Kentucky The critical commonplace that affirmation of unity lies close to the heart of Romantic literature has been somewhat out of favor in recent years. Increasingly since the 1950's, dissatisfied with the notion of Romantic
poetry by reviewing how these poets distinguish nature from humanity and the human consciousness, thus illuminating Wordsworth, Smith, and other Romantics’ selfish appropriation of nature as a means to express their own displeasure, sorrow, and melancholy.
James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin’s 2005 collection Romantic Metropolis identified and encouraged this inquiry by explicitly demonstrating that several current critical meth-ods and discourses, otherwise not necessarily overlapping, all shared an investment in urban social spaces and practices.
This research paper delves into the significance of nature in Romantic poetry, focusing on the works of five major poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
ROMANTIC-ERA POETIC FORMS. Lyric poetry: A brief, emotive poem written in first person; it emphasizes sound and pictorial imagery rather than narrative or dramatic movement. Ode (odal hymn): A long, stately lyric poem in stanzas of varied metrical patterns.
ENGLISH POETRY. Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. An international team of experts explores ...
1) provide a comprehensive view of the Romantic Movement, its beginnings, its ' sources of inspiration, its important features, its major figures and their contributions. 2) enable you to analyse, identify and appreciate Romantic poetry, and 3) make you realise the importance of the Romantic Movement in English
When we turn to critical accounts of gothic’s relationship to the poetry, verse tragedies, and metrical romances that we associate with ‘‘romanticism,’’ however, much of this complexity disappears – in part because the question has not been treated in depth, and in part because the problem requires reconceptualization.