Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe

ISBN-13: 9781137533968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str.

Tim Fulford

Opis

How does Romantic poetry read if seen as the product of a coterie of writers, editors, publishers, and critics rather than original lyrics composed by individual geniuses? Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries explores Romanticism as a discourse characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles in self-conscious opposition to prevailing social and political values and in deliberate differentiation from the normal practices of contemporary print culture. Considering writing communities such as the Southey/Coleridge circle, the Bloomfield circle, and the Clare circle, Tim Fulford reveals the context in which the composition, publishing and reading of blank-verse effusions, magazine essays, and long-form notebook verse, among others, took place.

Recenzje

"In this well-researched and wide-ranging study, Tim Fulford joins critics such as Jeffrey Cox, Jon Mee and Paul Magnuson who instead see Romantic writing as a collaborative endeavour, investigating small writing communities (pejoratively dubbed 'schools' by Romantic-era reviewers) or twosomes. ... Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries displays an impressive command of material with admirable alertness to the effects on the writers' work of the 'micro-historical' as well as larger-scale social and political developments ... ." (Kim Wheatley, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)

O autorze

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing the Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.