The Form of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s A Period of Doubt /

• Main Author: Stewart, David (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Poetry.; British literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; British and Irish Literature.

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide...

Table of Contents:

• 1:Introduction
• 2: 'The Genius of the Times': Sales, Forms and Periods
• 3: 'Infinite Profit in a Little Book': Ephemerality and the Annuals
• 4: 'A Labyrinth of Difficulties and Distinctions': Landon, Darley, Browning
• 5: 'A Fatal Gift': Formal Apparitions in Hemans and Beddoes
• 6: 'The Proper Pathetic Face': Hunt, Reynolds, Hood, Praed
• 7: 'A Living Doubt': Clare and Hartley
• 8: 'Conclusion': From Byron to Tennyson.