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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.
List of contents
Introduction: Rock and Romanticism
by James Rovira
Part I: Blake, Shelley, and Rock
"Tangled Up in Blake: the Triangular Relationship among Dylan, Blake, and the Beats"
by Luke Walker
"Romanticism in the Park: Mick Jagger Reading Shelley"
by Jaaneke van der Leest
"William Blake: The Romantic Alternative"
by Douglas T. Root
"Digging at the Roots: Martha Redbone's The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake"
by Nicole Lobdell
"'Tangle of Matter and Ghost': U2, Leonard Cohen, and Blakean Romanticism"
by Lisa Crafton
Part II: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Rock
"The Inner Revolution(s) of Wordsworth and the Beatles"
by David Boocker
"'When the Light that's Lost within Us Reaches the Sky': Jackson Browne's Romantic Vision"
by Gary L. Tandy
"'Swimming Against the Stream': Rush's Romantic Critique of their Modern Age"
by David S. Hogsette
"Wordsworth's 'Michael,' the Georgic, and Blackberry Smoke"
by Ronald D. Morrison
"Wordsworth on the Radio"
by Rachel Feder
Part III: European Romanticisms and Popular Music
"Themes of 'Scapigliatura' and cursed poets in the songs of Piero Ciampi (1934-1980)"
by Lorenzo Sorbo
For more information, visit https://jamesrovira.com/rock-and-romanticism-blake-wordsworth-and-rock-from-dylan-to-u2/
About the author
James Rovira is chair and associate professor in the English department at Mississippi College.
