Reading Romantic Poetry (Blackwell Reading Poetry) (Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry) - Hardcover

Stafford, Fiona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405191554 ISBN 13: 9781405191555

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

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Review:

"There are gems of insight on every page of this engaging and clarifying book, which opens up familiar and unfamiliar poems to considerations of verbal texture just as much as it reveals them in their cultural and political contexts. Stafford's Reading Romantic Poetryteaches as much by example as by precept. This is how to read Romantic poetry and it is, as such, an ideal introduction to the period's literary culture as a whole." (The BARS Review, 1 October 2014)

"These engagements with the nature of poetry are no mystical celebration of a mysterious power--on the contrary: by focusing on specific attempts Professor Stafford underlines the demystifying facet of these poems which lay bare their own artifice to their readers." (Cercles, 1 December 2012)

"An excellent, well-written resource for those interested in Romantic poetry ... Stafford brings a new sensibility and fresh eye to the subject ... Highly recommended." (Choice, 1 October 2012)

From the Back Cover:

Coleridge argued that the most powerful poems were those "to which we return with the greatest pleasure." Reading Romantic Poetry demonstrates, through careful critical analysis, the ways in which the rich poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries can speak directly to modern audiences.

The book introduces readers, often for the first time, to the pleasure of reading Romantic poetry. The famous poets of the period are included: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare--together with a host of less familiar writers, such as the women poets Smith, Yearsley, Barbauld, More, and Hemans.

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, the key poems and players, as well as the crucial literary circles and influences of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1405191554
• ISBN 13: 9781405191555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248