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Introduction: Understanding Romantic Poetry
1988Most people reading a book of this kind nip through the preliminary sections as quickly as possible. Title page, list of contents, acknowledgements (‘… thanks above all to my wife, but for whose tireless work typing the manuscript and strangling the dog, this book would never …’) are usually dull or condescending or both, and a bit like the wrapping on
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1993
Abstract The contribution of women to Romantic poetry has been generally underestimated. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770 - 1835 provides the first complete record of the volumes of verse written by women and reveals the scale of their involvement in the Romantic movement. The Bibliography includes the work of around 900
J R de, J Jackson
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Abstract The contribution of women to Romantic poetry has been generally underestimated. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770 - 1835 provides the first complete record of the volumes of verse written by women and reveals the scale of their involvement in the Romantic movement. The Bibliography includes the work of around 900
J R de, J Jackson
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2016
French Romantic poetry marked a dramatic break with a national tradition of verse which had been inherited almost unaltered from the seventeenth century. During the eighteenth century, the neo-classical conception of poetry as a rule-governed and highly stylized art had continued to prevail; verse was characterized by a solemn tone and narrow lexis ...
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French Romantic poetry marked a dramatic break with a national tradition of verse which had been inherited almost unaltered from the seventeenth century. During the eighteenth century, the neo-classical conception of poetry as a rule-governed and highly stylized art had continued to prevail; verse was characterized by a solemn tone and narrow lexis ...
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1961
In this and the next two chapters we are to give an idea of how a style may be defined with relative precision by means of our seven axes of bias. We have chosen “romanticism” for study because this seems to be both an important concept and also a singularly vague one as it is currently employed.1 It is therefore a good test case for our purposes.
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In this and the next two chapters we are to give an idea of how a style may be defined with relative precision by means of our seven axes of bias. We have chosen “romanticism” for study because this seems to be both an important concept and also a singularly vague one as it is currently employed.1 It is therefore a good test case for our purposes.
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2002
Abstract Blake’s engagement with Atlantic slavery is now generating a veritable subdiscourse within Romantic studies. These debates focus on two loci that are seen to constitute Blake’s most direct treatment of slavery. The first are the engravings which Blake made for Captain John Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against ...
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Abstract Blake’s engagement with Atlantic slavery is now generating a veritable subdiscourse within Romantic studies. These debates focus on two loci that are seen to constitute Blake’s most direct treatment of slavery. The first are the engravings which Blake made for Captain John Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against ...
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Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics
2013The response of the major Romantic poets to Shakespeare is multifaceted. But recognition of Shakespearean vitality and suggestiveness is pervasive. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of Blake’s colour-print ‘Pity’ and an account of pre-Romantic responses to Shakespeare (notably in the criticism of Henry Mackenzie and Samuel Johnson, and the ...
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2010
‘We live in mental representations of the past’, said Wallace Stevens, which might itself appear a very ‘Romantic’ way of looking at things; and ‘Romanticism’ is one of those representations. We live in mental representations of the present too of course, though, as it happens ‘Romantic’ was not a representation that would have seemed important to the ‘
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‘We live in mental representations of the past’, said Wallace Stevens, which might itself appear a very ‘Romantic’ way of looking at things; and ‘Romanticism’ is one of those representations. We live in mental representations of the present too of course, though, as it happens ‘Romantic’ was not a representation that would have seemed important to the ‘
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