Romanticism and War
Subtitle: A Study of British Romantic Period Writers and the Napoleonic Wars
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780333801765
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Other warfare & defence issues; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism-Gothic & Romance; 19th century; English literature; French influences; History and criticism; Literature and the wars; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
First sentence: In The Deserted Village (1770), Goldsmith sketched a portrait of an old soldier, presumably a victim of the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1753: The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,