The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

By Mark Storey

This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033373890X
• ISBN13: 9780333738900
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"