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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
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More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO: BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION: THE COMPANIONABLE FORMS OF ROMANTIC POETRY
- 1 The living pantheon of poets in 1820: pantheon or canon?
- 2 Romantic poetry and antiquity
- 3 Romantic meter and form
- 4 Romantic poetry and the standardization of English
- 5 Thinking in verse
- 6 Romantic poetry and the romantic novel
- 7 Wordsworth’s great Ode: Romanticism and the progress of poetry
- 8 Romantic poetry, sexuality, gender
- 9 Poetry, peripheries and empire
- 10 Romantic poetry and the science of nostalgia
- 11 Rethinking Romantic poetry and history: lyric resistance, lyric seduction
- 12 The medium of Romantic poetry
- 13 Romantic poets and contemporary poetry
- INDEX