Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

by Stephen Tedeschi

Book Overview

Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical form that the process of urbanization had taken, rather than urbanization itself. The works of the Romantic poets are popularly considered in a rural context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108402631
• ISBN13: 9781108402637
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"