British poetry and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars : visions of conflict
Bainbridge, SimonAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2003.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
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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.
English poetry
War in literature
English poetry
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
English Literature
Literature - General
English
Languages & Literatures