John Thelwall

Selected Poetry and Poetics
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-46625-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5212 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with historical traditions and current critical paradigms.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: 'Poets and Poesy I sing' 2. Poems Pastoral and Peripatetic 3. Comic Ballads, Satires, and Seditious Allegories 4. Sonnets 5. Odes I: Public and Pindaric 6. Odes II: Conversations and Effusions 7. Songs of Love 8. Epic: The Hope of Albion 9. Autobiographies

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Thompson is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Canada.