Poetic Form and British RomanticismOxford University Press, 1990 M02 22 - 288 pages Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The Second Renaissance | 14 |
Chapter 3 The Sonnet | 29 |
Chapter 4 The Hymn and Ode | 56 |
Chapter 5 The Pastoral | 85 |
Chapter 6 The Romance | 128 |
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