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基本説明
A study of the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on the poetry of the Romantic period, both canonical and non-canonical, argues that the period was an age of war poetry.
Full Description
This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines. It shows that poetry was a crucial form through which what were seen as the first modern or 'total' wars were imagined in Britain and that it was central to the cultural and political debates over the conflict with France. While the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars compelled poets to re-examine their roles, it was poetry itself which produced a major transformation of the imagining of war that would be influential throughout the nineteenth century.
Contents
List of abbreviations ; 1. Poetry in 'The Age of War' ; 2. The poetic imagining of war in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; 3. 'Was it for this ... ?': war and poetic identity in Southey and Wordsworth, 1793-1802 ; 4. 'Men are we': poetry, war, and gender in Wordsworth's political sonnets, 1802-3 ; 5. Walter Scott's picturesque romance of war, 1805-14 ; 6. 'History in the land of romance': poetry and the Peninsular war, 1808-14 ; 7. 'Of war and taking towns': Byron's and Heman's post-Waterloo poetry, 1816-25 ; Epilogue: the 'Sir Walter disease' and the legacy of romantic war ; Bibliography ; Index
