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The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

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This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising 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 manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of ...

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The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period 2000, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, England

ISBN-13: 9780312230449

Hardcover

The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period 2000, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333738900

Hardcover