The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

Storey, M.

This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-05-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333738900

DOI: 10.1057/9780230595910

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 197