Oriental Wells
Subtitle: The Early Romantic Poets and Their Eastern Muse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789389165203
Subjects: Poetry, history and criticism; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: "Oriental Wells explores the manifold ways in which the East was a major source of inspiration for the British Romantic poets, who generously borrowed from the Eastern sources in their effort to reinvent the British poetic tradition. It examines the "orientalization" of Romantic poetry, using works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Walter Savage Landor"--