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Suggested Titles
The following is a sample from our catalog.
English Romantic Poets by Call Number: 821.709 Ab83e2ISBN: 9780195019469Publication Date:Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism—old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by Call Number: 801 Ab83mISBN: 9780195004656Publication Date:Traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early nineteenth century.
Romanticism and the Gothic by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0511010087Publication Date:This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre—the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability.
Romantic Poetry by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781282162167Publication Date:Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages.
William Blake by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781780428741Publication Date:Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake’s work is made up of several elements—Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare—to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David.
