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"In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety, or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language. And they were barely out of their teens when their...
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Poet of nature and of revolution, of everyday life and lofty ideals, William Wordsworth overthrew the poetic conventions of his day and still speaks to ours. Elinor Parker has chosen for this volume poems which reveal Wordsworth's devotion to his principles and his skill in their execution.
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A superb interdisciplinary reference guide to the whole Romantic period, with numerous illustrations, presenting great literary figures such as Wordsworth and Coleridge along-side their counterparts in the field of art, music, design, science, politics, and the history of ideas, within a broad cultural and historical perspective. Forty essays on key topics, written by major international authorities, are complemented by an alphabetical reference section...
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