English Romantic Poetry

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Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom, Henry W, Albert A Berg
Infobase Publishing, 2009 - Literary Criticism - 414 pages
From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview on the poets who defined the English Romantic period. Specific topics such as the forms and characteristics of English Romantic poetry are addressed.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats
25
The Poetics of Prophecy
43
The Ode on a Grecian Urn
65
English Romanticism
101
Phases of English Romanticism
117
Rhyme and the Arbitrarinessof Language
129
The Narrator as Satiric Devicein Don Juan
149
The Imaginative Vision of Kubla Khan
251
Time and Historyin Wordsworth
265
Byron and Shelley
289
The Material Dimensions
319
The Religion of Empire
337
Chronology
375
Contributors
379
Bibliography
383

Form and Freedomin European Romantic Poetry
163
Tragedy and the Imagination in Coleridges Later Poems
185
Involute and Symbolin the Romantic Imagination
215
Acknowledgments
387
Index
391
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About the author (2009)

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

Bibliographic information

TitleEnglish Romantic Poetry
BPS Series
Bloom's Period Studies
EditorsHarold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom, Henry W, Albert A Berg
PublisherInfobase Publishing, 2009
ISBN1438114958, 9781438114958
Length414 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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