Reading Romantic Poetry

✍ Scribed by Fiona Stafford(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Chapter 1 The Pleasures of Poetry (pages 1–33):
Chapter 2 Solitude and Sociability (pages 34–64):
Chapter 3 Common Concerns and Cultural Connections (pages 65–94):
Chapter 4 Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers (pages 95–131):
Chapter 5 Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices (pages 132–161):
Chapter 6 Sweet Sounds (pages 162–192):
Chapter 7 Poems on Pages (pages 193–226):