Reading Romantic Poetry (eBook)

Fiona Stafford (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
248 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-22812-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 poetry

* Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics
to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind
of man

* Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different
aspects 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 the
poem on the page

* Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of their
literary, historical, political and personal contexts

* Includes 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

Autor

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

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"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)

"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." (Choice, 1 October
2012)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Reading Poetry
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 18th Century English Literature • Englische Literatur / 18. Jhd. • Englischsprachige Literatur • Literature • Literaturgeschichte • Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-118-22812-X / 111822812X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-22812-8 / 9781118228128