Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem

by Michael O'Neill

This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry that displays awareness of itself as poetry - in the work of the major Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Michael O'Neill's readings freshly illuminate the imaginative distinction of many famous and often-studied poems, and revalue less regarded works. An extended coda looks at some post-Romantic poets, particularly Yeats, Stevens,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122853
• ISBN13: 9780198122852
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"