The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry

Abstract

The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors-Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake, and Shelley-and including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, with a wealth of practical examples. Michael Ferber emphasizes connections between poets as they responded to each other and to the great literary, social, and historical changes around them. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers of works from this period might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood, and meter. This enjoyable and stimulating book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry.

“The Expressive Organ within Us”

“…This list is by no means exhaustive; as Michael Ferber emphasizes, nearly every early Romantic poet addressed the instrument in some fashion. 68 For my purpose it is sufficient that these texts display some of the shared language used to describe the timbre and expression of the Aeolian harp. This discourse remains remarkably consistent among the poems, as do representations of the instrument evoking sympathetic vibration in the nerves or mind.…”

Образ Орла Як Уособлення Поета У Поезії Епохи Романтизму

“…Неодноразово образ орла як уособлення поета зустрічається в поезії англійського поета-романтика Джона Кітса. Так, Кітс у листі до Рейнольдса в травні 1818 називав В. Вордсворта, який належав до першої генерації поетів-романтиків, «орлом» [16,28].…”