Reading romantic poetry /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Series: | Wiley Online Library.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1118228103 (electronic bk.) 1118228111 (electronic bk.) 9781118228104 (electronic bk.) 9781118228111 (electronic bk.) |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9781118228104 |