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The Politics of Romantic Poetry

In Search of the Pure Commonwealth

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Richard Cronin

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Revolutionary Years

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Erasmus Darwin: from the Bastille to Birmingham

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 29-47

    3. William Blake and Revolutionary Prophecy

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 48-60

    4. The English Jacobins

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 61-82

  4. The War against Napoleon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Walter Scott and Anti-Gallican Minstrelsy

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 92-109

    3. Wordsworth at War

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 110-127

    4. Mapping Childe Harold I and II

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 128-144

  5. England in 1819

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Asleep in Italy: Byron and Shelley in 1819

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 156-180

    3. Leigh Hunt, Keats and the Politics of Cockney Poetry

      • Richard Cronin
      Pages 181-199

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 200-225
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About this book

In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. One group, as yet the most numerous, insists that to study a poem is to investigate the historical circumstances out of which it was produced; the other retorts that poetry offers pleasures fully available only to readers whose attention is focused on their language. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a function of its style.

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He is a master of his subject, and his book is the most ground-breaking critique of the Romantic movement to have appeared... Times Literary Supplement (UK)

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  • University of Glasgow, UK

    Richard Cronin

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Richard Cronin is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

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