The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

About this book

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

  1. Cover
  2. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO: BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. CONTRIBUTORS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. CHRONOLOGY
  9. INTRODUCTION: THE COMPANIONABLE FORMS OF ROMANTIC POETRY
  10. 1 The living pantheon of poets in 1820: pantheon or canon?
  11. 2 Romantic poetry and antiquity
  12. 3 Romantic meter and form
  13. 4 Romantic poetry and the standardization of English
  14. 5 Thinking in verse
  15. 6 Romantic poetry and the romantic novel
  16. 7 Wordsworth’s great Ode: Romanticism and the progress of poetry
  17. 8 Romantic poetry, sexuality, gender
  18. 9 Poetry, peripheries and empire
  19. 10 Romantic poetry and the science of nostalgia
  20. 11 Rethinking Romantic poetry and history: lyric resistance, lyric seduction
  21. 12 The medium of Romantic poetry
  22. 13 Romantic poets and contemporary poetry
  23. INDEX