Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars,
A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of
Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and
indispensable place in the history of English literature.
* Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied
authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field
and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at
the present time
* Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical
approach
* Features essays on production and distribution and the
different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry
* Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as
the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the
field
* Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of
essays on British Romantic poetry currently available
A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of
Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and
indispensable place in the history of English literature.
* Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied
authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field
and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at
the present time
* Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical
approach
* Features essays on production and distribution and the
different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry
* Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as
the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the
field
* Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of
essays on British Romantic poetry currently available
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Charles Mahoney
Part I Forms and Genres 7
1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song 9
Michael O’Neill
2 Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning25
Simon Jarvis
3 The Temptations of Tercets 44
Charles Mahoney
4 To Scorn or To ‘Scorn not the Sonnet’ 62
Daniel Robinson
5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives 78
Steve Newman
6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment 95
William Flesch
7 ‘Stirring shades’: The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives 107
Esther Schor
8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy123
Christopher R. Miller
9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing 140
Tim Burke
10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral 159
John Bugg
11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry176
Adam Potkay
Part II Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements195
12 ‘Other voices speak’: The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley 197
Simon Bainbridge
13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution 217
Sarah M. Zimmerman
14 Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era 234
Michael Scrivener
15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales 251
Jane Moore
16 Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry 268
Karen Weisman
17 Leigh Hunt’s Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversionfrom Homer to Hyperion 285
Michael Tomko
18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797-1798 302
Emily Sun
Part III Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives 319
19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry321
Angela Esterhammer
20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon 337
Ghislaine Mc Dayter
21 Poetry and Illustration: ‘Amicable strife’354
Sophie Thomas
22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry 374
John Strachan
23 ‘The science of feelings’: Wordsworth’s Experimental Poetry 393
Ross Hamilton
24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism 412
Laura Quinney
25 Milton and the Romantics 425
Gordon Teskey
Part IV Critical Issues and Current Debates 443
26 ‘The feel of not to feel it, ‘ or the Pleasures of Enduring Form 445
Anne-Lise François
27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of ‘Aslumber did my spirit seal’ 467
Marc Redfield
28 ‘Strange utterance’: The (Un)Natural Language ofthe Sublime in Wordsworth’s Prelude 483
Timothy Bahti
29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime 503
Ian Balfour
30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry 521
James Najarian
31 Blake’s Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion 538
Karen Swann
32 The World without Us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature 554
Bridget Keegan
33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan 572
Guinn Batten
34 The Persistence of Romanticism 589
Willard Spiegelman
Index 606
Circa l’autore
Charles Mahoney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Romantics and Renegades: The Poetics of Political Reaction (2003), the editor of Leigh Hunt, Later Literary Essays (2003), and co-editor, with Michael O’Neill, of Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
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