Oriental Wells: The Early Romantic Poets and Their Eastern Muse

by Md. Monirul Islam and Monirul Islam

Oriental Wells explores the manifold ways in which the East was a major source of inspiration for the British Romantic poets, who generously borrowed from the Eastern sources in their effort to reinvent the British poetic tradition. It examines the "orientalization" of Romantic poetry, using works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Walter Savage Landor.

Analyzing the Romantic poets'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9389165202
• ISBN13: 9789389165203
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
• Length: 288 Pages