English Romantic Poetry (Bloom's Period Studies)

✍ Scribed by Harold Bloom

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 414
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview on the poets who defined the English Romantic period. This title, English Romantic Poetry, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined English Romantic Poetry. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Makings of a Music: Reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats......Page 34
The Poetics of Prophecy......Page 52
Truth the Best Music: The Ode on a Grecian Urn......Page 74
English Romanticism......Page 110
Phases of English Romanticism......Page 126
Rhyme and the Arbitrarinessof Language......Page 138
The Narrator as Satiric Devicein Don Juan......Page 158
Form and Freedomin European Romantic Poetry......Page 172
“We Must Away”: Tragedy and the Imagination in Coleridge’s Later Poems......Page 194
Involute and Symbolin the Romantic Imagination......Page 224
The Imaginative Vision of Kubla Khan......Page 260
Time and History in Wordsworth......Page 274
Byron and Shelley......Page 298
Keats’s Poems:The Material Dimensions......Page 328
The Religion of Empire......Page 346
Chronology......Page 384
Contributors......Page 388
Bibliography......Page 392
Acknowledgments......Page 396
Index......Page 400