A Companion to Romantic Poetry

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Romantic Poetry

Editor(s): Charles Mahoney

Published Online: 3 MAY 2012 09:56PM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405135542

Online ISBN: 9781444390650

DOI: 10.1002/9781444390650

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Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature.

  • Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time
  • Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach
  • Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry
  • Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field
  • Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–5)

      Charles Mahoney

  3. Part I: Forms and Genres

    1. Chapter 1

      Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song (pages 7–24)

      Michael O'neill

    2. Chapter 2

      Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning (pages 25–43)

      Simon Jarvis

    3. Chapter 3

      The Temptations of Tercets (pages 44–61)

      Charles Mahoney

    4. Chapter 4

      To Scorn or To “Scorn not the Sonnet” (pages 62–77)

      Daniel Robinson

    5. Chapter 5

      Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives (pages 78–94)

      Steve Newman

    6. Chapter 6

      Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment (pages 95–106)

      William Flesch

    7. Chapter 7

      “Stirring shades”: The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives (pages 107–122)

      Esther Schor

    8. Chapter 8

      Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy (pages 123–139)

      Christopher R. Miller

    9. Chapter 9

      The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing (pages 140–158)

      Tim Burke

    10. Chapter 10

      Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral (pages 159–175)

      John Bugg

    11. Chapter 11

      Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry (pages 176–194)

      Adam Potkay

  4. Part II: Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements

    1. Chapter 12

      “Other voices speak”: The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley (pages 195–216)

      Simon Bainbridge

    2. Chapter 13

      The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution (pages 217–233)

      Sarah M. Zimmerman

    3. Chapter 14

      Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era (pages 234–250)

      Michael Scrivener

    4. Chapter 15

      Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales (pages 251–267)

      Jane Moore

    5. Chapter 16

      Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry (pages 268–284)

      Karen Weisman

    6. Chapter 17

      Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion (pages 285–301)

      Michael Tomko

    7. Chapter 18

      Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797–1798 (pages 302–317)

      Angela Esterhammer

  5. Part III: Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives

    1. Chapter 19

      Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry (pages 319–336)

      Angela Esterhammer

    2. Chapter 20

      Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (pages 337–353)

      Ghislaine McDayter

    3. Chapter 21

      Poetry and Illustration: “Amicable strife” (pages 354–373)

      Sophie Thomas

    4. Chapter 22

      Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry (pages 374–392)

      John Strachan

    5. Chapter 23

      “The Science of Feelings”: Wordsworth's Experimental Poetry (pages 393–411)

      Ross Hamilton

    6. Chapter 24

      Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism (pages 412–424)

      Laura Quinney

    7. Chapter 25

      Milton and the Romantics (pages 425–441)

      Gordon Teskey

  6. Part IV: Critical Issues and Current Debates

    1. Chapter 26

      “The Feel of not to Feel it,” or the Pleasures of Enduring Form (pages 443–466)

      Anne-Lise François

    2. Chapter 27

      Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of “A Slumber did my Spirit Seal” (pages 467–482)

      Marc Redfield

    3. Chapter 28

      “Strange Utterance”: The (Un)Natural Language of the Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude (pages 483–502)

      Timothy Bahti

    4. Chapter 29

      The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime (pages 503–520)

      Ian Balfour

    5. Chapter 30

      Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry (pages 521–537)

      James Najarian

    6. Chapter 31

      Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion (pages 538–553)

      Karen Swann

    7. Chapter 32

      The World without us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature (pages 554–571)

      Bridget Keegan

    8. Chapter 33

      Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan (pages 572–588)

      Guinn Batten

    9. Chapter 34

      The Persistence of Romanticism (pages 589–605)

      Willard Spiegelman

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      Index (pages 606–625)

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