A Companion to Romantic Poetry

A Companion to Romantic Poetry By Charles Mahoney (ed.)
2010 | 632 Pages | ISBN: 1405135549 | PDF | 5 MB
Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available Content: Chapter 1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song (pages 7-24): Michael O'neillChapter 2 Archaist?Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning (pages 25-43): Simon JarvisChapter 3 The Temptations of Tercets (pages 44-61): Charles MahoneyChapter 4 To Scorn or To "Scorn not the Sonnet" (pages 62-77): Daniel RobinsonChapter 5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives (pages 78-94): Steve NewmanChapter 6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment (pages 95-106): William FleschChapter 7 "Stirring shades": The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives (pages 107-122): Esther SchorChapter 8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy (pages 123-139): Christopher R. MillerChapter 9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing (pages 140-158): Tim BurkeChapter 10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral (pages 159-175): John BuggChapter 11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco?descriptive Poetry (pages 176-194): Adam PotkayChapter 12 "Other voices speak": The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley (pages 195-216): Simon BainbridgeChapter 13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution (pages 217-233): Sarah M. ZimmermanChapter 14 Laboring?Class Poetry in the Romantic Era (pages 234-250): Michael ScrivenerChapter 15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales (pages 251-267): Jane MooreChapter 16 Anglo?Jewish Romantic Poetry (pages 268-284): Karen WeismanChapter 17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion (pages 285-301): Michael TomkoChapter 18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797-1798 (pages 302-317): Angela EsterhammerChapter 19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry (pages 319-336): Angela EsterhammerChapter 20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (pages 337-353): Ghislaine McDayterChapter 21 Poetry and Illustration: "Amicable strife" (pages 354-373): Sophie ThomasChapter 22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry (pages 374-392): John StrachanChapter 23 "The Science of Feelings": Wordsworth's Experimental Poetry (pages 393-411): Ross HamiltonChapter 24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism (pages 412-424): Laura QuinneyChapter 25 Milton and the Romantics (pages 425-441): Gordon TeskeyChapter 26 "The Feel of not to Feel it," or the Pleasures of Enduring Form (pages 443-466): Anne?Lise FrancoisChapter 27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal" (pages 467-482): Marc RedfieldChapter 28 "Strange Utterance": The (Un)Natural Language of the Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude (pages 483-502): Timothy BahtiChapter 29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime (pages 503-520): Ian BalfourChapter 30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry (pages 521-537): James NajarianChapter 31 Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion (pages 538-553): Karen SwannChapter 32 The World without us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature (pages 554-571): Bridget KeeganChapter 33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan (pages 572-588): Guinn BattenChapter 34 The Persistence of Romanticism (pages 589-605): Willard Spiegelman