[PDF] The English Romantics eBook

Author : E. P. Thompson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1459604660

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Now in paperback, the great historian's provocative account of the rise of Romanticism. Combining his incomparable knowledge of English history with an original interpretation of British literature of the late 18th and early nineteenth century, E. P. Thompson traces the intellectual influences and societal pressures that gave rise to the English Romantic movement. Writing with great passion and literary force, Thompson examines the interaction between politics and literature at the beginning of the modern age, focusing in on the turbulent 1790s -- the time of the French and American revolutions -- through the celebrated writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Author : Catherine M. Andronik
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429989734

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Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety—or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys—and girls.

Author : John L. Mahoney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780881339574

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This anthology of works by major English Romantic poets offers readers a collection of representative Romantic literature as well as critical texts by the major spokesmen of the movement in England.

Author : Andrew Elfenbein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804769893

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Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized—a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only in a history of English, but also in a recovery of major events shaping English studies as a coherent discipline. This book points to new directions in literary criticism by arguing for the need to reconceptualize authorial agency in light of a broadened understanding of linguistic history.

Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141905654

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 1996-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486292827

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Rich selection of 123 poems by six great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Ozymandias" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Author : J.R. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317896068

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On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the best introductions to the subject. This edition includes updated material in the light of recent work in Romanticism and Romantic poetry. The book discusses the concerns that linked the Romantic poets, from their responses to the political and social upheavals around them to their interest in the poet's visionary and prophetic role. It includes helpful and authoritative discussions of figures such as Blake, Clare, Coleridge, Crabbe, Keats, Scott, Shelley and Wordsworth.

Author : Uttara Natarajan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470766352

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This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521604444

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Studies the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey and other Romantic writers in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.

Author : Anne Frey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804773483

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British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and viewed the supposedly less imaginative character of their late work as evidence of declining abilities. Frey argues, in contrast, that late Romanticism offers an alternative aesthetic model that adjusts authorship to work within an expanding and bureaucratizing state. She examines how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and De Quincey portray specific state and imperial agencies to debate what constituted government power, through what means government penetrated individual lives, and how non-governmental figures could assume government authority. Defining their work as part of an expanding state, these writers also reworked Romantic structures such as the imagination, organic form, and the literary sublime to operate through state agencies and to convey membership in a nation.