The problem of poetry in the romantic period / Mark Storey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storey, Mark, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Poetry.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

xi, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This is a lively introduction of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confronted the writing and theorizing of poetry. The question "What is a poet?" is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: "We poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness". The apparent confidence of the manifestos is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.

Contents:

1. Lyrical Ballads: 'The burden of the mystery' 1

2. Coleridge: 'The self-consuming breast' 29

3. The Prelude: 'The wavering balance of my mind' 56

4. Keats and Shelley: 'The dark idolatry of self' 88

5. Clare: 'This sad non-identity' 121

6. Byron and Clare: 'An indigestion of the mind' 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-191) and index.

ISBN:

0312230443

OCLC:

42454359