The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

Author: Maureen N. McLane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1139827901

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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.

Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake
Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake

Author: Nicholas M. Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-04-13

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780521620505

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Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Poetry and Drama
Poetry and Drama

Author: Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1615304908

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Discusses the literary concepts and terms used in poetry and dramatic literature, including the different styles of poetry and drama, and each style's origins.