British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict

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Oxford University Press, 2003 - 259 páginas
This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines.

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Poetry in the Age of War
1
The Poetic Imagining of War in the 1790s Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
55
Was it for This ? War and Poetic Identity in the Writings of Southey and Wordsworth 17931802
80
Men are We Poetry War and Gender in Wordsworths Political Sonnets 18021803
99
Walter Scotts Picturesque Romance of War 18051814
120
History in the Land of Romance Poetry and the Peninsular War 18081814
148
Of War and Taking Towns Byrons and Hemanss postWaterloo Poetry 18161828
190
The Sir Walter Disease and the Legacy of Romantic War
225
Bibliography
228
Index
253
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Simon Bainbridge is a Professor of English Literature, University of Keele.

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