Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition

Klappentext This 1998 book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in nineteenth-century political poetry. Zusammenfassung This 1998 book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in nineteenth-century political poetry. It argues that a communitarian tradition of poetry extending from the 1790s to William Morris in the 1890s drew on elements of Romantic lyricism to produce an ongoing and self-conscious tradition of radical poetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: Romantic studies as a unified field; Part I. A Dialectic of Romanticism: 1. The communitarian lyric in the dialectic of Romanticism; 2. Ballad, lyrical ballad, lyric; 3. The sun and the tree: lyrics of liberty; Part II. Interventionist Poetics in the Tradition of Romanticism: 4. Allen Davenport on the threshold of Chartism; 5. The forms of Chartist poetry and poetics: 1838 46; 6. Labour's laureates: Allen Davenport, Thomas Cooper, and Ernest Jones in 1846; 7. W. J. Linton and William Morris: Republican and Socialist poetics; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction: Romantic studies as a unified field; Part I. A Dialectic of Romanticism: 1. The communitarian lyric in the dialectic of Romanticism; 2. Ballad, lyrical ballad, lyric; 3. The sun and the tree: lyrics of liberty; Part II. Interventionist Poetics in the Tradition of Romanticism: 4. Allen Davenport on the threshold of Chartism; 5. The forms of Chartist poetry and poetics: 1838 46; 6. Labour's laureates: Allen Davenport, Thomas Cooper, and Ernest Jones in 1846; 7. W. J. Linton and William Morris: Republican and Socialist poetics; Conclusion; Notes; Index.