The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

2012-04-26
The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

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  • Author: Michael Ferber
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107376866
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

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 - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, with a wealth of practical examples. Michael Ferber emphasizes connections between poets as they responded to each other and to great literary, social and historical changes around them. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers of works from this period might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood and meter. This enjoyable and stimulating book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

2008-09-04
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

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  • Author: Maureen N. McLane
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139827901
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

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.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

2010-07-22
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

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  • Author: Stuart Curran
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139824864
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It also features a comprehensive chronology and a fully up-to-date guide to further reading. For the past decade and more the Companion has been a much-admired and widely-used account of the phenomenon of British Romanticism that has inspired students to look at Romantic literature from a variety of critical angles and approaches. In this new incarnation, the volume will continue to be a standard guide for students of Romantic literature and its contexts.

The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

2010-08-19
The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

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  • Author: Emma Mason
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139491636
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this Introduction offers students ways to understand and enjoy Wordsworth's poetry and his role in the development of Romanticism in Britain. Emma Mason offers a completely up-to-date summary of criticism on Wordsworth from the Romantics to the present and an annotated guide to further reading. With definitions of technical terms and close readings of individual poems, Wordsworth's experiments with form are fully explained. This concise book is the ideal starting point for studying Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and the major poems as well as Wordsworth's lesser known writings.

The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

2018-01-18
The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

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  • Author: Jonathan Sachs
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108420311
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning.

The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

2012-04-26
The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

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  • Author: Michael Ferber
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 052176906X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion

2021-10-21
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion

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  • Author: Jeffrey W. Barbeau
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108482848
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 367

The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.

Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction

2010-09-23
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction

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  • Author: Michael Ferber
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 019956891X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 169

The only short introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy.-publisher description.

British Romantic Writers and the East

2004-06-24
British Romantic Writers and the East

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  • Author: Nigel Leask
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521604444
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

Studies the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey and other Romantic writers in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.

The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

2009-01-02
The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

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  • Author: Ross Wilson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135910367
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained attention to a set of challenging questions at the heart of British Romantic poetic practice and theory. Is poetry alive for the Romantic poets? If so, how? Does ‘life’ always mean ‘life’? In a range of essays from a variety of complementary perspectives, a number of major Romantic poets are examined in detail. The fate of Romantic conceptions of ‘life’ in later poetry also receives attention. Through, for examples, a revision of Blake’s relationship to so-called rationalism, a renewed examination of Wordsworth’s fascination with country graveyards, an exploration of Shelley’s concept of survival, and a discussion of the notions of ‘life’ in Byron, Kierkegaard, and Mozart, this volume opens up new and exciting terrain in Romantic poetry’s relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.