Look Round for Poetry - Untimely Romanticisms

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.

List of contents

Introduction | 1

1. Understating Poetry | 23

2. The Poetics of Downturns | 41

3. I Wandered Lonely as an iCloud | 61

4. On the Poetry of Posthumous Election | 82

5. Keats for Beginners | 101

6. The Grammar of Romanticism: Shelley's Prepositions | 120

Conclusion 139

Acknowledgments | 143

Notes | 145

Bibliography | 173

Index | 187

About the author

Brian McGrath is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy.

Product details

• Authors: Brian McGrath
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780823299805
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-9980-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Lit Z
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies