Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798

by David Fairer

In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the 'revolutionary decade' David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss it. The book examines why, at a time of radical upheaval when continuities of all kinds (personal, political, social, and cultural) were being challenged, this group of poets explored themes of inheritance, retrospect, revisiting,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199296162
• ISBN13: 9780199296163
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"