This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. Watson discusses the particular fascination of those wars, and the way in which they affected a way of thinking about war that lasted until the early twentieth century.
This book is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleoni...
Concerned with English poetry of the Romantic period, this author-based study aims to consider the writer in terms of the poetry, and not from a biographical point of view, and the political and social history which conditioned this poetry.
Concerned with English poetry of the Romantic period, this author-based study aims to consider the writer in terms of the poetry, and not from a biogr...
