The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period |
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| Author:
| Storey, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-23044-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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This is a lively introduction of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confronted the writing and theorizing of poetry. The question "What is a poet?" is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." The apparent confidence of the manifestos is...
More DescriptionThis is a lively introduction of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confronted the writing and theorizing of poetry. The question "What is a poet?" is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." The apparent confidence of the manifestos is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.