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Title The Romantics and us : essays on literature and culture / edited by Gene W. Ruoff
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Gene W. Ruoff -- Whitman? No, Wordsworth : the song of myself / Diane Wakoski -- Places and poems : a self-reading and a reading of the self in the romantic context form Wordsworth to Parkman / John Matthias -- The road of excess : my William Blake / Alicia Ostriker -- "The man freed from the order of time" : poetic theory in Wordsworth and Proust / Louis Simpson -- Romancing the (native) stone : Yeats, Stevens, and the Anglocentric canon / George Bornstein -- The gazer's spirit : Romantic and later poetry on painting and sculpture / John Hollander -- Skies of the city : a poetry reading / Robert Pinsky -- Wordsworth and the options for contemporary American poetry / Charles Altieri -- Narrative and de-narrativized art / Karl Kroeber
The historical novel goes to Hollywood : Scott, Griffith, and film epic today / James Chandler -- Why women didn't like Romanticism : the views of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley / Anne K. Mellor -- Romantic lyric and the problem of belief / Gene W. Ruoff -- Wordsworth's prescriptions : Romanticism and professional power / Clifford Siskin
Analysis English literature Romanticism
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [323]-325
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- England -- Influence.
Romanticism -- English-speaking countries.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942
Author Ruoff, Gene W.
LC no. 89036069
ISBN 0813514983
0813514991 (paperback)