TY - BOOK AU - Stafford,Fiona J. TI - Reading Romantic poetry SN - 9781118228111 AV - PR590 .S734 2012eb U1 - 821/.709145 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Hoboken, NJ PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - English poetry KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Romanticism KW - Great Britain KW - POETRY KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- The Pleasures of Poetry -- Solitude and Sociability -- Common Concerns and Cultural Connections -- Traditions and Transformations: Poets as Readers -- Reading or Listening? Romantic Voices -- Sweet Sounds -- Poems on Pages -- References -- Index; eng N2 - Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetryIntroduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of manEncourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to readin UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118228104 ER -