There has not, however, been a recent attempt to distill this impressive scholarship in the context of a broad historical survey that is neither too diffuse, and hence, superficial in its discussion of individual writ- variety of literary genres ers nor too concentrated and, hence, incomplete in its analysis of literary movements and periods. There have also been numerous specialized studies of nineteenth-century verse that trace the relationship between individual Romantics and Victorians or highlight some common theme that is modified as it passes from one poet to another. There are, of any number of literary histories that encompass the whole intended to course, Preface fill a and take as their domain the whole of British literature as it developed from the Roman occupation to the present. of British poetry in the nineteenth century is vacuum in recent intellectual history.( Preface vii Acknowledgments Chronology ix xi ONE The Romantic Ethos 1 TWO William Blake 26 THREE Wordsworth and Coleridge 42 FOUR Byron and Shelley 70 FIVE John Keats 100 SIX The Victorian Ethos 131 SEVEN Tennyson and the Brownings 154 EIGHT Four Oxonians 200 NINE The Pre-Raphaelite Circle 242 TEN Hardy, Housman and the Nineties Notes and References Selected Bibliography Index. 809 - 1993 dc20 93-19832 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. British literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. British poetry of the nineteenth century /Stephen p. 1200 Eglinton Avenue East Suite 200 Don Mills, Ontario M3C 3N1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gurney, Stephen. Twayne Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Publishers Macmillan Publishing Company 866 Third Avenue New York, New York 10022 Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
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