The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry Hardback
by Maureen N. (Associate Professor, Harvard University, Massachusetts) McLane
Edited by James (University of Chicago) Chandler
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series
Hardback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2008
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- ISBN:9780521862356
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521862356