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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972550803321

Autore

Curran Stuart

Titolo

Poetic form and British romanticism / / Stuart Curran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772565-1

1-4237-3718-0

1-60129-744-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

821.609145

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Romanticism - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Of Form and Genre -- Chapter 2 The Second Renaissance -- Chapter 3 The Sonnet -- Chapter 4 The Hymn and Ode -- Chapter 5 The Pastoral -- Chapter 6 The Romance -- Chapter 7 The Epic -- Chapter 8 Composite Orders -- Chapter 9 Form and Freedom in European Romantic Poetry -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This study confronts the popular stereotype that the Romantics either accepted or rejected previously established literary genres, proposing rather that they adapted traditional poetic forms to suit their own democratic, secular, and sceptical ethos.