Title: Republican politics and English poetry, 1789-1874 /
Authors: Kuduk Weiner, Stephanie, 1972-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: English poetry History and criticism; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Politics and literature Great Britain History; Republicanism Great Britain History; Republicanism Great Britain History; English poetry History and criticism; Political poetry, English History and criticism.; Republicanism in literature.; POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.; Literary studies: poetry & poets.; Literature.; English poetry; Republicanism in literature.; Political poetry, English; Politics and literature; Republicanism; Republikanisme.; Gedichten.; Engels.; Lyrik.; Republikanismus (Motiv); Politik (Motiv); Radikalismus (Motiv); Französische Revolution (Motiv)
Abstract: In the wake of the French Revolution, political theorists and activists advanced a newly coherent set of democratic principles that form the foundation of our modern political world - the principles of Republicanism. The fate of that project was intertwined with the course of Nineteenth-century English poetry. This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse. By examining a range of canonical and non-canonical authors- including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne - Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategies of republican poems to the political theory and expressive cultures of republican radicalism. This study traces a strain of powerful, complex political poetry that casts new light on the political and literary history of nineteenth-century England.