This anthology fills the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of the most important contemporary writings on the English romantic poets. During the 1980s, many theoretical innovations in literary study swept academic criticism. Many of these approaches--from deconstructive, new historicist, and feminist perspectives--used romantic texts as primary examples and altered radically the ways in which we read. Other major changes have occurred in textual studies, dramatically transforming the works of these poets. The world of English romantic poetry has certainly changed, and Romantic Poetry keeps pace with those changes. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff have organized the book by poet--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats--and have included essays representative of key critical approaches to each poet's work. In addition to their excellent general introduction, the editors have provided brief, helpful forewords to each essay, showing how it reflects current approaches to its subject. The book also has an extensive bibliography sure to serve as an important research aid. Students on all levels will find this book invaluable.
Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times (Rutgers University Press) and other books.
Gene W. Ruoff is the director of the Institute for the Humanities and a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Making of Major Lyrics, 1802-1804 (Rutgers University Press) and other books.
Gene W. Ruoff is the director of the Institute for the Humanities and a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Making of Major Lyrics, 1802-1804 (Rutgers University Press) and other books.
Romanticism in England / Marilyn Butler
Field, constellation, and aesthetic object / Thomas McFarland
The I altered / Stuart Curran
The romantic emergence : multiplication of alternatives and the problem of systematic entrapment / L.J. Swingle
William Blake
William Blake, illuminated books, and the concept of difference / Joseph Viscomi
Blake's "London" / Heather Glen
Desire gratified and ungratified : William Blake and sexuality / Alicia Ostriker
William Wordsworth
The politics of "Tintern Abbey" / Kenneth R. Johnston
The economy of lyric : The ruined cottage / Alan Liu
Figuring class, sex, and gender : what is the subject of Wordsworth's "Gipsies"? / David Simpson
Bounding lines : The prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac
"Splitting the race of man in twain" : prostitution, personification, and The prelude / Mary Jacobus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The politics of "Frost at midnight" / Paul Magnuson
Literary gentlemen and lovely ladies : the debate on the character of Christabel / Karen Swann. Word and "languageless" meanings : limits of expression in The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano
Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff
Lord Byron
Shipwreck and skepticism : Don Juan canto II / Andrew M. Cooper
"Their she condition" : cross-dressing and the politics of gender in Don Juan / Susan J. Wolfson
Setting Byron straight : class, sexuality, and the poet / Jerome Christensen
The nameless broken dandy and the structure of authorship / Peter J. Manning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley as Athanase / Donald H. Reiman
Shelley's Mont Blanc : what the mountain said / Frances Ferguson
Rhyme and the arbitrariness of language / William Keach
The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's Triumph of life / Tilottama Rajan
Shelley's "Defence of poetry" / Karl Kroeber
John Keats
Romance as wish-fulfillment : The eve of St. Agnes / Stuart M. Sperry
Keats and the canon / Marjorie Levinson
Poetics and the politics of reception : Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Theresa M. Kelley
Poem and ideology : a study of Keats's "To autumn" / Geoffrey H. Hartman
Keats and the historical method in literary criticism / Jerome McGann
History, existence, and "To autumn" / Paul H. Fry
Field, constellation, and aesthetic object / Thomas McFarland
The I altered / Stuart Curran
The romantic emergence : multiplication of alternatives and the problem of systematic entrapment / L.J. Swingle
William Blake
William Blake, illuminated books, and the concept of difference / Joseph Viscomi
Blake's "London" / Heather Glen
Desire gratified and ungratified : William Blake and sexuality / Alicia Ostriker
William Wordsworth
The politics of "Tintern Abbey" / Kenneth R. Johnston
The economy of lyric : The ruined cottage / Alan Liu
Figuring class, sex, and gender : what is the subject of Wordsworth's "Gipsies"? / David Simpson
Bounding lines : The prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac
"Splitting the race of man in twain" : prostitution, personification, and The prelude / Mary Jacobus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The politics of "Frost at midnight" / Paul Magnuson
Literary gentlemen and lovely ladies : the debate on the character of Christabel / Karen Swann. Word and "languageless" meanings : limits of expression in The rime of the ancient mariner / Raimonda Modiano
Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff
Lord Byron
Shipwreck and skepticism : Don Juan canto II / Andrew M. Cooper
"Their she condition" : cross-dressing and the politics of gender in Don Juan / Susan J. Wolfson
Setting Byron straight : class, sexuality, and the poet / Jerome Christensen
The nameless broken dandy and the structure of authorship / Peter J. Manning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley as Athanase / Donald H. Reiman
Shelley's Mont Blanc : what the mountain said / Frances Ferguson
Rhyme and the arbitrariness of language / William Keach
The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's Triumph of life / Tilottama Rajan
Shelley's "Defence of poetry" / Karl Kroeber
John Keats
Romance as wish-fulfillment : The eve of St. Agnes / Stuart M. Sperry
Keats and the canon / Marjorie Levinson
Poetics and the politics of reception : Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Theresa M. Kelley
Poem and ideology : a study of Keats's "To autumn" / Geoffrey H. Hartman
Keats and the historical method in literary criticism / Jerome McGann
History, existence, and "To autumn" / Paul H. Fry
