This study confronts the popular stereotype that the Romantics either accepted or rejected previously established literary genres, proposing rather that they adapted traditional poetic forms to suit their own democratic, secular, and sceptical ethos. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428. . 1990. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Poetic Form and British Romanticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195060725
ISBN 13: 9780195060720
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first attempts to create a coherent history of Western literature. Calling into question that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that the Romantic poets, far from being indifferent or hostile to popular forms of literature were actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary conventions and conveyors of implicit ideological value. Whether in their proccupation with fixed forms, which resulted in the incomparable artistry of Romantic odes, or in their rethinking of major genres like the pastoral, the epic, and the romance, the Romantic poets transformed every element they touched to suit their own democratic, secular and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.

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