Fiona Stafford

Reading Romantic Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes andpreoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsedby revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.

Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry,backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility tostudents with little prior experience of poetry
Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politicsto publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mindof man
Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up differentaspects 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 thepoem on the page
Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of theirliterary, historical, political and personal contexts
Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth,Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare -as well asa host of less familiar writers, including women

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781118773000
• ISBN-10: 1118773004
• Artikelnr.: 40127696

Autorenporträt

Fiona Stafford is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She has published on a wide range of Romantic literature, and is especially interested in the literary relationships between England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. She has written several books including Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry (2010) and Brief Lives: Jane Austen (2008), and has edited Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (2013), as well as novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii 1 The Pleasures of Poetry 1 2 Solitude and Sociability 34 3
Common Concerns and Cultural Connections 65 4 Traditions and
Transformations: Poets as Readers 95 5 Reading or Listening? Romantic
Voices 132 6 Sweet Sounds 162 7 Poems on Pages 193 References 227 Index 230

Rezensionen

"There are gems of insight on every page of this engaging and clarifying book, which opens up familiar and unfamiliar poems to considerations of verbal texture just as much as it reveals them in their cultural and political contexts. Stafford's Reading Romantic Poetryteaches as much by example as by precept. This is how to read Romantic poetry and it is, as such, an ideal introduction to the period's literary culture as a whole." (The BARS Review, 1 October 2014)

"These engagements with the nature of poetry are no mystical celebration of a mysterious power--on the contrary: by focusing on specific attempts Professor Stafford underlines the demystifying facet of these poems which lay bare their own artifice to their readers." (Cercles, 1 December 2012)
"An excellent, well-written resource for those interested in Romantic poetry ... Stafford brings a new sensibility and fresh eye to the subject ... Highly recommended." (Choice, 1 October 2012)