Desultory Verse

Desultory Verse
Author: La Touche Hancock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1912
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period
Author: M. Storey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2000-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 023059591X

This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.

Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804

Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804
Author: Gurion Taussig
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874137415

This book analyzes Coleridge's male friendships during the 1790s. It shows the poet's experience of relationship is structured by and contributes to contemporary debate about friendship. Examination of Coleridge's epistolary relations with Poole, Southey, Lamb, Lloyd, Thelwall, Wordsworth, and Godwin demonstrates that each friendship negotiates issues of relationship discussed throughout English culture of this period.