Fifteen essays draw upon a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches, from psychoanalysis to structuralism, from deconstruction to phenomenology.
"In this book David Rosen offers a new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The m…
This account of modern poetry presents a revisionist view of its' relation to Romanticism. As British poets from Wordsworth to Auden strived to present themselves both as persons of power and moral voices in their communities the rifts between plain English and their own ambitio…
"Receiving a mixed reception at best, The Excursion was still recognized as the period's most significant bid to create a major philosophical poem, an epic for the post-revolutionary age. Wordsworth, as the co-author of Lyrical Ballads and the creator of Poems in Two Volumes, ha…
"Receiving a mixed reception at best, The Excursion was still recognized as the period's most significant bid to create a major philosophical poem, an epic for the post-revolutionary age. Wordsworth, as the co-author of Lyrical Ballads and the creator of Poems in Two Volumes, ha…