The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets: Romanticism Revised (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 104) - Softcover

Fulford, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316619702 ISBN 13: 9781316619704

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The long-established association of Romanticism with youth has resulted in the early poems of the Lake Poets being considered the most significant. Tim Fulford challenges the tendency to overlook the later poetry of no longer youthful poets, which has had the result of neglecting the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey of the 1820s and leaving unexamined the three poets' rise to popularity in the 1830s and 1840s. He offers a fresh perspective on the Lake Poets as professional writers shaping long careers through new work, as well as the republication of their early successes. The theme of lateness, incorporating revision, recollection, age and loss, is examined within contexts including gender, visual art, and the commercial book market. Fulford investigates the Lake Poets' later poems for their impact now, while also exploring their historical effects in their own time and counting the costs of their omission from Romanticism.

About this title

Book Description:

Challenging the academically accepted view that the early poems of the Lake Poets were the most significant, Tim Fulford focuses on the importance and innovation of their later work. From this standpoint he argues that Southey's poetry is revealed as comparable with that of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

About the Author:

Tim Fulford is a Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has published widely on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature and culture. He is editor of The Banks of Wye: A Critical Edition (2012) and co-editor of Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1316619702
• ISBN 13: 9781316619704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332