Romantic aversions
Subtitle: aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge
By: J. Douglas Kneale.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Classicism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English poetry -- Classical influences.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Description: Often Regarded as a turning point in literary history, Romanticism is the period when writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge renounced the common legacy of poets and sought to create a new literature. Despite their emphasis on originality, genius, and spontaneity, the first-generation Romantics manifested a highly intertextual style that, while repressing certain classical and neoclassical literary conventions, revealed a deep dependence on those same rhetorical practices.

Combining original and close readings of the texts with a larger sweep of genre studies, Douglas Kneale brings to light new and unexpected convergences in the Romantic tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.