The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521680837)

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.

Author: James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane
ISBN-10: 0521680832
ISBN-13: 9780521680837
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2008
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d