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  3. The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139024129
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139024129
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, with a wealth of practical examples. Michael Ferber emphasizes connections between poets as they responded to each other and to great literary, social and historical changes around them. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers of works from this period might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood and meter. This enjoyable and stimulating book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry.

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Contents

Contents
References
Further reading
Criticism
Wu, Also helpful is DuncanA Companion to RomanticismOxfordBlackwell 1998
Abrams, M. H.Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic LiteratureNew YorkW. W. Norton 1971
Backgrounds and contexts
Bainbridge, SimonRomanticism: A SourcebookBasingstokePalgrave Macmillan 2008
Butler, MarilynRomantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760–1830Oxford University Press 1982
Ferber, MichaelRomanticism: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press 2010
Ford, BorisThe Romantic Age in BritainCambridge University Press 1992
Gaull, MarilynEnglish Romanticism: The Human ContextNew YorkW. W. Norton 1988
Moore, JaneStrachan, JohnKey Concepts in Romantic LiteratureBasingstokePalgrave Macmillan 2010

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