British poetry and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars : visions of conflict
This text 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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 259 pages ; 22 cm
9780198187585, 0198187580
52830759
Poetry in the 'age of war'
The poetic imagining of war in the 1790s : Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Was it for this ...?' : War and poetic identity in the writings of Southey and Wordsworth, 1793-1802
'Men we are' : poetry, war and gender in Wordsworth's political sonnets, 1802-1803
Walter Scott's picturesque romance of war, 1805-1814
'History in the land of romance' : poetry and the Penninsular War, 1808-1828
Epilogue : the 'Sir Walter disease' and the legacy of romantic war