Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle

by Jeffrey N. Cox

Book Overview

Jeffrey N. Cox refines our conception of second generation Romanticism by placing it within the circle of writers around Leigh Hunt that came to be known as the Cockney School. Cox challenges the traditional image of the Romantic poet as an isolated figure by recreating the social nature of the work of Shelley, Keats, Hunt, Hazlitt, Byron, and others. This book not only demonstrates convincingly that a Cockney School existed, but shows that it was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604230
• ISBN13: 9780521604239
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"