Poetic Form and British Romanticism

by Stuart Curran

Book Overview

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. Ranging with assurance across that history, Stuart Curran demonstrates that Romanticism, far from being indifferent or hostile to the received forms of literature as popular caricature has held, was actually obsessed with them as repositories of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040198
• ISBN13: 9780195040197
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"