Reading Romantic Poetry - Rilegato

Stafford, Fiona J.

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ISBN 10: 1405191554 ISBN 13: 9781405191555

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Riassunto

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

• Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry
• Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man
• Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects 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 the poem on the page
• Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of their literary, historical, political and personal contexts
• Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare —as well as a host of less familiar writers, including women

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Recensione:

"This is an extremely accomplished, elegant and wide-ranging account of Romantic poetry. The readings of poems are astute and helpful, and the author writes with the tact and good sense of a first-rate appreciative critic, able to bring out the larger implications of details. Foregrounds blend effortlessly with backgrounds; texts and contexts coexist harmoniously and stimulatingly. Fiona Stafford has produced a splendid volume which anyone teaching Romantic poetry would want to read and want their students to read."
--Michael O'Neill, Durham University
 
"A wonderful introduction to the subject by one of Britain's foremost readers and critics of Romantic poetry. Stafford is infinitely sensitive to the poems themselves, but also shows the importance of historical contexts. An excellent study."
--Jon Mee, University of Warwick
 
"A brilliantly informative guide that pinpoints the essential qualities of Romantic verse. With its emphasis on the pleasures of poetry, the artistic inventiveness and intellectual ambition of Romantic writers, and the challenging cultural conditions in which they worked, this is the perfect introduction to Romantic poetry, unmatched in its breadth of reference and critical sensitivity."
--David Duff, University of Aberdeen
 
"A pleasure to read - this is an engaging, sensitive and wide-ranging study. There is a real relish here for poetry - a delight in its forms and voices, sounds and rhythms. A wonderful guide to Romantic poetry, offering a rich appreciation of its historical engagements, pleasures and possibilities."
--Dr Mina Gorji, University of Cambridge

L'autore:

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. Her most recent work, Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry, explores the vital connection between poetry and place from the Romantic period to the present day. She has also edited novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and is the author of Brief Lives: Jane Austen.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1405191554
• ISBN 13: 9781405191555
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 237