British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780198187585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 272 str.

Simon Bainbridge

Opis

This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines.

Recenzje

This is an important book that I would urge all serious readers of Romantic writing to read and engage with.