The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333761069)

In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. One group, as yet the most numerous, insists that to study a poem is to investigate the historical circumstances out of which it was produced; the other retorts that poetry offers pleasures fully available only to readers whose attention is focused on their language. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a function of its style.

Author: R. Cronin
ISBN-10: 0333761065
ISBN-13: 9780333761069
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2000
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d