ENGLISH

The lives and works of the English Romantic poets

By Willard , Spiegelman

Book information

Publisher
Teaching Co
Year
2002
ISBN
9781565852969, 1565852966
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1903398 bytes)
Series
Great courses (Compact disc)
Pages
74\134
Time added
2020-02-15 03:33:22
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and crit

Description

Introduction to Romanticism and English poets. Abstract: Introduction to Romanticism and English poets Content: part 1: Romantic beginnings -- Wordsworth and the Lyrical ballads -- Life and death, past and present -- Epic ambitions and autobiography -- Spots of time and poetic growth -- Coleridge and the art of conversation -- Hell to Heaven via Purgatory -- Rivals and friends -- William Blake : eccentric genius -- From innocence to experience -- Blake's prophetic books -- Women romantic poets. part 2: "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" -- Byronic hero -- Don Juan: a comic masterpiece -- Shelley and romantic lyricism -- Shelley's figures of thought -- Shelley and history -- Shelley and love -- Keats and the poetry of aspiration -- Keats and ambition -- Keats and Eros -- Process, ripeness, fulfillment -- Persistence of Romanticism.

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