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Contents Preface I. WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) Critical history From first responses to Northrop Frye Extract from Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947) Further reading Critical history Historical and political readings Extract from David Erdman, Blake: Prophet against Empire (1954) Further reading Critical history To the present Extract from V. A. De Luca, Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime (1991) Further reading II. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) Critical history The contemporary reception Extract from William Hazlitt, ¿Mr. Wordsworth¿ in The Spirit of the Age (1825) Further reading Critical history Arnold to Hartman: from ¿nature¿ to ¿vision¿ Extract from Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth¿s Poetry 1787-1814 (1964) Further reading Critical history Historicizing Wordsworth Extract from Alan Liu, Wordsworth: The Sense of History (1989) Further reading Critical history To the present Extract from David Bromwich, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth¿s Poetry of the 1790s (1998) Further reading III. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) Critical history From the 1790s to the 1930s Extract from J. L. Lowes, The Road to Xanadu (1927) Further reading Critical history Idealising Coleridge Extract from John Beer, Coleridge the Visionary (1959) Further reading Critical history Deconstructing Coleridge Extract from J. J. McGann, ¿The Ancient Mariner: the Meaning of Meanings¿ (1981) Further reading Critical history To the present Extract from Seamus Perry, Coleridge and the Uses of Division (1999) Further reading IV. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) Critical history From contemporary responses to Victorian readings Extract from Joseph Mazzini, ¿On Byron and Goethe¿ (1839) Further reading Critical history The early twentieth century Extract from T.S. Eliot, ¿Byron¿ (1937) Further reading Critical history Canonical Byron: the 1960s and onwards Extract from J. J. McGann, Fiery Dust: Byron¿s Poetic Development (1968) Further reading Critical history Byron and politics Extract from Jerome Christensen, Lord Byron¿s Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society (1993) Further reading V. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) Critical history From contemporary responses to the twentieth century Extract from C.E. Pulos, The Deep Truth: A Study of Shelley¿s Scepticism (1954) Further reading Critical history Shelley, scepticism, and idealism Extract from Earl Wasserman, Shelley: A Critical Reading (1971) Further reading Critical history Shelley and socialism Extract from Timothy Clark, Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in Shelley (1989) Further reading VI. JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) Critical history The contemporary reception Extract from J. G. Lockhart, ¿The Cockney School of Poetry¿ (1818) Further reading Critical history Keats canonized: The Victorian period to the twentieth century Extract from Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats (1963) Further reading Critical history Class, gender, and politics: Keats¿s anxiety Extract from Marjorie Levinson, Keats¿s Life of Allegory: the Origins of a Style (1988) Further reading Critical history History and politics: Keats¿s radicalism Extract from Nicholas Roe, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997) Further reading VII. AN EXPANDING CANON Critical history John Clare (1793-1864) Extract from John Barrell, ¿Being is Perceiving: James Thomson and John Clare¿ in Poetry, Language, and Politics (1988) Further reading Critical history Romantic women poets Extract from Stuart Curran, ¿Romantic Poetry: The I Altered¿ (1988) Further reading Index
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.