Romantic presences
Subtitle: living images from the age of Wordsworth & Shelley
By: Jeffrey C. Robinson.
Series: Clinamen studies series
Publisher: Station Hill Press; Distributed by the Talman Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Barrytown, N.Y; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Contemporaries.; English literature -- 19th century -- Themes, motives.; American literature -- Themes, motives.; Romanticism.
Description: Casting brilliant new light on some of the most beloved poetry in the Western tradition, Romantic Presences is a set of meditations in prose and poetry on a wide range of images from early 19th-century English writing. Some of the images are familiar Romantic symbols - the skylark, the nightingale, the sigh. Others are literary personages of the Romantic period - from Robert Burns to Coleridge - who have become legends and images.

Still others are almost entirely new because they come from the little explored realm of women's writing. Together they help recover the power of Romantic poetry for a new generation of devoted readers.