Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry 1825-1855 /

• Main Author: Crawford, Joseph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Poetry.; History.; Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive psychology.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical d...