Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetryIntroduces many of the major topics of theage, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton tothe mind of manEncourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to readingDiscusses the poets' own reading and experience of being read, as well as analysis of the sounds of key poems and the look of the poem on the pageDeepens understanding of poems through awareness of their literary, historical, political and personal contextsIncludes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare €”as well as a host of less familiar writers, including women INDICE: Preface.Chapter One: The Pleasures of Poetry.Painful Pleasures.Public and Private.Chapter Two: Solitude and Sociability.Romantic Solitude.The Romantic Resistance to Solitude.Public and Private Friendships of Poets.Friendships Tested and Trie.Chapter Three: Common C.ncerns and Cultural Connections.Common Causes: The Abolition.Common Culture: Romantic Rainbows.Chapter Four: Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers.The Sonnet Revival.Paradise Lost.Native Traditions.Chapter Five: Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices.The Language of Conversation: Lyrical Ballads.Oral and Rural.Standard English and theFreedom of Speech.Chapter Six: Sweet Sounds.Romantic Nightingales.Hidden Birds that Sing.Sound and Sense.Chapter Seven: Poems on Pages.Romantic Poets: Thenand Now.Illuminated Books.From Vision to Volume.Christabel, and Other Poems, 1816.Reading according to Composition or Publication?References.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9155-5
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 13/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés