An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary
eras in the history of British literature
This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work
of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic
era--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley--as well as
works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh
Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant
contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry.
The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the
Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running
through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section
'Readings' it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the
Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and
poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses. In addition,
the authors provide a full introduction, a detailed historical and
cultural timeline, biographies of the poets whose works are featured in
the "Readings" section, and a helpful guide to further reading.
The Romantic Poetry Handbook is an ideal text for undergraduate and
postgraduate study of British Romantic poetry. It also will appeal to
every reader with an interest in the Romantics and in poetry generally.
