The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image

Jeffrey C. Robinson

ISBN 10: 1564784592 / ISBN 13: 9781564784599

Published by Dalkey Archive Press (edition 2nd), 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press (edition 2nd)
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564784592
• ISBN 13: 9781564784599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

"The Walk," a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of walking--through the country or city, during day or night, alone or with someone--and the literatures--the poems, essays, stories, novels, and diaries--walking has produced.

Jeffrey C. Robinson's discussion is less criticism than appreciation: with an autobiographical bent, he leads the reader through Romantic, modern, and contemporary literature to show us the shared pleasures of reading, writing, and walking.

About the Authors

Robinson has published widely in Romantic Studies. He is co-editor, along with Jerome Rothenberg, of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry. A winner of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder since 1971.

Gilbert is a professor of English at Cornell University. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.