The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

Download or read book The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period written by M. Storey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question 'What is a poet?' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth's lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . The apparent confidence of the manifestoes is undermined by the self-doubts of much of the poetry, ranging from Coleridge to John Clare.