Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and
preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed
by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
* Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry,
backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to
students with little prior experience of poetry
* Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics
to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind
of man
* Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different
aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading
* Discusses the poets’ own reading and experience of being read,
as well as analysis of the sounds of key poems and the look of the
poem on the page
* Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of their
literary, historical, political and personal contexts
* Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare –as well as
a host of less familiar writers, including women
Cuprins
Preface vii
1 The Pleasures of Poetry 1
2 Solitude and Sociability 34
3 Common Concerns and Cultural Connections 65
4 Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers 95
5 Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices 132
6 Sweet Sounds 162
7 Poems on Pages 193
References 227
Index 230
Despre autor
Fiona Stafford is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She has published on a wide range of Romantic literature, and is especially interested in the literary relationships between England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. She has written several books including Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry (2010) and Brief Lives: Jane Austen (2008), and has edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2013), as well as novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley.
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