Romantic Presences

by Jeffrey C. Robinson

This book is a set of meditations in prose and poetry on a range of images and topics from the repertoire of early nineteenth-century English poetry and prose. Many of the images are familiar, stock properties of the Romantic tradition--e.g. the skylark, the nightingale, the sigh. Others are not precisely images but historical figures who have gained a mythic status - e.g. "Robert Burns," "S. T. Coleridge." And finally, there are images that have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882681982
• ISBN13: 9780882681986
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"