Title Writing romanticism : Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807 / Jacqueline M. Labbe

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Writing the Lyrical Ballad: Hybridity and Self-Reflexity -- Mediating History: War Poetry -- Subject to Place, Subjected by Poetry -- Modelling the Romantic Poet -- 1807: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Introduction -- Writing the lyrical ballad: hybridity and self-reflexity -- Mediating history: war poetry -- Subject to place, subjected by poetry -- Modelling the romantic poet -- 1807: the art of poetry on a new plan -- Conclusion Summary What is Wordsworthian Romanticism and how did it evolve? What happens if we read the poetry of Charlotte Smith into the equation? This book argues that what we have commonly labeled the 'Wordsworthian' in fact emerges from the sustained attention the young Wordsworth paid to the thematics of place, history, memory, and subjectivity in Smith's work: a Smithian poetics. What follows is a period of mutual reading, each poet attuned to and absorbing the work of the other, in a virtual partnership more productive to the development of English poetry than any other of the period. Although they met only once, their work shows, throughout the 1790s and until Smith's death in 1806, a common devotion to innovation and experimentation that establishes Romantic poetry. This book demonstrates that the two poets co-wrote a poetics that stands for many readers as representatively Romantic, and represents a significant and original re-evaluation of the Romantic period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 -- Criticism and interpretation Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 -- Contemporaries Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Contemporaries SUBJECT Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 fast Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 fast Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism Romanticism -- Great Britain Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. Contemporaries English poetry Romanticism Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230306141 0230306144 9780230317376 0230317375 1283159120 9781283159128

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