English Romantic poets and the Enlightenment
Subtitle: nine essays on a literary relationship
By: Harold Orel.
Series: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century ;; v. 103; Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century ;; 103.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation, Thorpe Mandeville House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Banbury, Oxfordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.; Enlightenment.; Politics in literature.; English poetry -- French influences.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The cotter's Saturday night and rival literary traditions; title: Blake's hostility to the Enlightenment; title: Coleridge and the conversation poems; title: Wordsworth's repudiation of Godwinism; title: Scott's definition of the usable past; title: Byron's debt to the Enlightenment; title: Keats's faith in human progress; title: Shelley I; title: The necessity of atheism; title: Shelley II; title: the last great poem of the English Enlightenment.