Stafford Reading Romantic Poetry

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-22812-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Reading Poetry

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes andpreoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsedby revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
* Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry,backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility tostudents with little prior experience of poetry
* Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politicsto publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mindof man
* Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up differentaspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading
* Discusses the poets' own reading and experience of being read,as well as analysis of the sounds of key poems and the look of thepoem on the page
* Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of theirliterary, historical, political and personal contexts
* Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare --as well asa host of less familiar writers, including women

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stafford, Fiona

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
1 The Pleasures of Poetry 1
2 Solitude and Sociability 34
3 Common Concerns and Cultural Connections 65
4 Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers 95
5 Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices 132
6 Sweet Sounds 162
7 Poems on Pages 193
References 227
Index 230

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Stafford is Professor of English Literature at theUniversity of Oxford, and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.She has published on a wide range of Romantic literature, and isespecially interested in the literary relationships betweenEngland, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. She has written several booksincluding Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry(2010) and Brief Lives: Jane Austin (2008) andhas edited Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads(2013), as well as novels by Jane Austen and MaryShelley.