Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth

Cronin, R.

In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. One group, as yet the most numerous, insists that to study a poem is to investigate the historical circumstances out of which it was produced; the other retorts that poetry offers pleasures fully available only to readers whose attention is focused on their language. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a function of its style.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-05-05

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349414239

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287051

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 225