Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre
Author: David Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2009-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199572747

This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.

The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle

The Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle
Author: B. Overton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2007-10-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230593461

This is the first book to cover the whole range of epistolary verse in the period, including the discursive type favoured by Pope and the familiar and dramatic epistles. It advances a new model for defining the form, demonstrates the form's importance in the period, and pays attention to non-canonical epistles by women and labouring-class writers.

A Mind For Ever Voyaging

A Mind For Ever Voyaging
Author: W. K. Thomas
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780888641359

Wordsworth depicted Newton, as Roubiliac may well have done in his statue of him, as voyaging, in ecstasy, through God's sensorium. In the Prelude passage from which the title A Mind For Ever Voyaging is derived, and in various others portraying Newton and science, Wordsworth seems to have written for two audiences, the general public and a much smaller, private audience, while seeking to elevate the minds of both to God. Like Pope before him, Wordsworth achieved "What oft was wrought, but ne'er so well exprest."

William Mason

William Mason
Author: John William Draper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1924
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN:

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1698
Release: 1971-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521079341

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.