Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780198129943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 296 str.

Jonathan Bate

Opis

Although is is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, extraordinarily little attention has been paid to how this affected their creative practice and their theories of the imagination. Yet Shakespeare's effect on both was crucial, as Jonathan Bate shows in this detailed study, which includes the first full critical discussions of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, and of the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge. The book also offers a fresh account of Shakespeare's powerful presence in the letters and poems of Keats and Byron, and in the Romantic drama, especially in Shelley's The Cenci

`...a scholarly, wide-ranging and illuminating book ... will be indispensable to students and teachers of Shakespeare and the English Romantic poets.' British Book News.

Recenzje

'Persuasively learned, but wearing its learning with grace and ease' R. A. Foakes, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Shakespeare, imagination, romanticism; `The eighth commandment was not made for bards': Coleridge and the problem of inherited language; Shakespearean voices in Coleridge's poetry; Wordsworth on Shakespeare; Shakespeare on Wordsworth; Shakespeare and Blake's imagination; Blake's poetry and the auspices of Shakespeare; Shakespeare to Hazlitt to Keats; Keats and his presider; Shelley and the lion in the path; Byron's pose; Notes