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Informationen zum Autor J R WATSON, is Professor of English in the University of Durham. His publications include Wordsworth's Vital Soul (1982), English Poetry of the Romantic Period (1985) and the Casebook on Browning's 'Men and Women' and Other Poems. Klappentext This Casebook presents a wide-ranging view of elements in eighteenth-century poetry which anticipate the Romantic movement. The principal poets considered are Thomson, Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Cowper and Crabbe. The selection of critical commentary is arranged in sections which reflect the different emerging concepts which eventually shaped the Romantic movement, such as Poetics and Poetic Diction, Nature, Landscape and Description, Poetry and Society, Poetry and Religion and The Self and the Imagination. Zusammenfassung The selection of critical commentary is arranged in sections which reflect the different emerging concepts which eventually shaped the Romantic movement! such as Poetics and Poetic Diction! Nature! Landscape and Description! Poetry and Society! Poetry and Religion and The Self and the Imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Preface Introduction PART 1: 18TH, 19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY CRITICISM PART 2: FROM AUGUSTAN TO ROMANTIC Poetics and Poetic Diction Nature, Landscape and Description Poetry and Society Poetry and Religion The Self and the Imagination Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Index
