Callaghan Madeleine - The Romantic Poetry Handbook

This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry.

The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, from Anna Laetitia Barbauld to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section Readings it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive, and accessible analyses. In addition, the authors provide a full introduction, a detailed historical and cultural timeline, biographies of the poets whose works are featured, and a helpful guide to further reading.

The Romantic Poetry Handbook is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of British Romantic poetry. It will also appeal to those with a general interest in poetry and Romantic literature.

Michael ONeill, is Professor of English at Durham University, UK. He has published widely on many aspects of Romantic literature, especially the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victorian poetry, and an array of British, Irish, and American twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets. His most recent book is, as editor, John Keats in Context (2017). He has also published three volumes of poetry.

Madeleine Callaghan, is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-editor of Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (2011), Assistant Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012), and author of Shelleys Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays (2017).

This new series offers the student thorough and lively introductions to literary periods, movements, and, in some instances, authors and genres, from AngloSaxon to the Postmodern. Each volume is written by a leading specialist to be invitingly accessible and informative. Chapters are devoted to the coverage of cultural context, the provision of brief but detailed biographical essays on the authors concerned, critical coverage of key works, and surveys of themes and topics, together with bibliographies of selected further reading. Students new to a period of study or to a period genre will discover all they need to know to orientate and ground themselves in their studies, in volumes that are as stimulating to read as they are convenient to use.

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This edition first published 2018
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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: ONeill, Michael, 1953 author. | Callaghan, Madeleine, author.
Title: The Romantic poetry handbook / by Michael ONeill and Madeleine Callaghan.
Description: 1 | Hoboken : WileyBlackwell, 2018. | Series: Wiley Backwell literature handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017031756 (print) | LCCN 2017037559 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118308691 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118308714 (epub) | ISBN 9781118308738 (hardback) | ISBN 9781118308721 (paper)
Subjects: LCSH: English poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etc. | English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etc. | RomanticismGreat BritainHandbooks, manuals, etc. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classification: LCC PR590 (ebook) | LCC PR590 .O64 2018 (print) | DDC 821/.709145dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031756

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The authors would like to thank all those at Wiley Blackwell who have made this book possible. The book is a joint venture, with each author taking primary responsibility for different sections. Michael ONeill has taken primary responsibility for the volumes overall design, and has written the introduction and the sections on Beddoes, Blake, Burns, Clare, Hunt, Moore, Robinson, Southey, and Wordsworth (with the exception of the section on