Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism

by Susan J. Wolfson

Book Overview

Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and showing how in theory and practice Romantic writers addressed, debated, tested, and contested fundamental questions about what is at stake in the poetic forming of language. In the process, it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804736626
• ISBN13: 9780804736626
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"