Majestic Indolence
English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:10th Aug '95
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This book examines the theme of indolence in Romantic poetry and demonstrates the rich variety of experiments preformed upon it by a quartet of poets, which focuses on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
Majestic Indolence offers itself as an unashamed defence of old-style aesthetic formalism ... the book offers a highly illuminating perspective on a dominant but neglected trope of romanticism. The chapter on 'Shelley's Versions of Pastoral', focussing on the poetry's verbs, is a model of scholarly rigour and sensitivity. Here the reading reaches beyond its conceptual limits to effect a brilliant commentary on the historicity of romantic language. * Philip Shaw, University of Leicester, BARS Bulletin & Review *
ISBN: 9780195093568
Dimensions: 243mm x 165mm x 20mm
Weight: 519g
240 pages