The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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the cambridge companion to british romantic poetry MorethananyotherperiodofBritishliterature,Romanticismisstronglyiden- tifiedwithasinglegenre.Romanticpoetryhasbeenoneofthemostenduring, best-loved,mostwidelyread,andmostfrequentlystudiedgenresfortwocen- turies and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and his- toricalcontexts.Theessaysconsideritsmetrical,formal,andlinguisticfeatures; itsrelationtohistory;itsinfluenceonothergenres;itsreflectionsofempireand nationalism,bothwithinandoutsidetheBritishIsles;andthevariousimplica- tions of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership.Attentionisgiventotheworkoflesswell-knownorrecentlyredis- coveredauthors,alongsidetheachievementsofsomeofthegreatestpoetsinthe English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron,andClare. james chandler is Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities at theUniversityofChicago. maureen n. mclane is Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History andLiteratureatHarvardUniversity. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY EDITED BY JAMES CHANDLER and MAUREEN N. McLANE Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521680837 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2008 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2008 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata TheCambridgecompaniontoBritishromanticpoetry/editedbyJamesChandlerand MaureenN.McLane. p. cm. Includesindex. isbn978-0-521-86235-6(hbk.)–isbn978-0-521-68083-7(pbk.) 1.Englishpoetry–19thcentury–Historyandcriticism–Handbooks,manuals,etc. 2.Englishpoetry–18thcentury–Historyandcriticism–Handbooks,manuals,etc. 3.Romanticism–GreatBritain–Handbooks,manuals,etc. i.Chandler,JamesK. ii.McLane,MaureenN. iii.Title. pr590.c34 2008 821(cid:3).709145–dc22 2008021913 isbn978-0-521-86235-6hardback isbn978-0-521-68083-7paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 CONTENTS Listofcontributors page vii Acknowledgments x Chronology xi 1 Introduction:ThecompanionableformsofRomanticpoetry james chandler and maureen n. mclane 1 Thelivingpantheonofpoetsin1820:pantheonorcanon? 10 jeffrey n. cox 2 Romanticpoetryandantiquity 35 nick groom 3 Romanticmeterandform 53 susan stewart 4 RomanticpoetryandthestandardizationofEnglish 76 andrew elfenbein 5 Thinkinginverse 98 simon jarvis 6 Romanticpoetryandtheromanticnovel 117 ann wierda rowland 7 Wordsworth’sgreatOde:Romanticismandtheprogressofpoetry 136 james chandler v Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 contents 8 Romanticpoetry,sexuality,gender 155 adriana craciun 9 Poetry,peripheriesandempire 178 tim fulford 10 Romanticpoetryandthescienceofnostalgia 195 kevis goodman 11 RethinkingRomanticpoetryandhistory:lyricresistance, 217 lyricseduction william keach 12 ThemediumofRomanticpoetry 239 celeste langan and maureen n. mclane 13 Romanticpoetsandcontemporarypoetry 263 andrew bennett 279 Index vi Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 CONTRIBUTORS andrew bennettisProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofBristol.Hehaspub- lished widely on Romantic and post-Romantic literature, including three books with Cambridge University Press: Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthu- mousLifeofWriting(1994),RomanticPoetsandtheCultureofPosterity(1999), andWordsworthWriting(2007). james chandlerisBarbaraE.andRichardJ.FrankeDistinguishedServicePro- fessorintheDepartmentofEnglishandintheCommitteeonCinemaandMedia StudiesattheUniversityofChicago,wherehealsoservesasDirectoroftheFranke InstitutefortheHumanities.HispublicationsincludeEnglandin1819(1998)and Wordsworth’s Second Nature (1984). He is co-editor of Questions of Evidence (1992)andRomanticMetropolis(2005).Mostrecently,hehaseditedTheCam- bridgeHistoryofBritishRomanticLiterature(2008). jeffrey n. cox is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and HumanitiesattheUniversityofColoradoatBoulder,whereheisalsotheAssociate ViceChancellorforFacultyAffairs.HisworkincludesPoetryandPoliticsinthe CockneySchool:Keats,Shelley,HuntandTheirCircle(1998)andIntheShadows ofRomance:RomanticTragicDramainGermany,England,andFrance(1987). adriana craciunisReaderinLiteratureandTheoryatBirkbeck,Universityof London. She is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (2003) and British WomenWritersandtheFrenchRevolution:CitizensoftheWorld(2005),andis currentlywritinganewbookonmultidisciplinaryprintcultureandArcticexplo- ration,calledNorthwestPassages. andrew elfenbein is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities; he is the author of Byron andtheVictorians(1995)andRomanticGenius:ThePrehistoryofaHomosexual Role(1999);hisRomanticismandtheRiseofEnglishisforthcoming. tim fulfordis Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of many books on Romantic-period literature and culture, most recently Romantic Indians (2006) and Literature, Science and Exploration (2004). He is vii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 contributors currentlyeditingRobertSouthey’slettersandpoemsforthefirstCollectedEdition. Hiscollectionofessays(co-editedwithKevinHutchings),TheIndianAtlantic,also publishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress,appearedin2008. kevis goodmanis Associate Professor of English at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, and the author of Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: PoetryandtheMediationofHistory(CambridgeUniversityPress,2004).Shehas contributed articles on Milton, eighteenth-century verse, and Romantic studies toELH,StudiesinRomanticism,SouthAtlanticQuarterly,EuropeanRomantic Review,TheWordsworthCircle,andotherjournals. nick groomis Professor in English at the University of Exeter (Cornwall Cam- pus)andDirectoroftheCentreforLiteraturesofIdentityandPlace.Hehaswrit- ten widely on national identity and authenticity in literature and culture – most recently in The Union Jack (2007) – and his edition of Percy’s Reliques will be published shortly. He is currently writing a book on the cultural history of the Britishenvironment. simon jarvisisGorleyPuttReaderinPoetryandPoeticsintheFacultyofEnglish, UniversityofCambridge.HeistheauthorofScholarsandGentlemen:Shakespear- ian Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour (1995); Adorno: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Wordsworth’s PhilosophicSong(CambridgeUniversityPress,2007). william keachis Professor of English at Brown University. His most recent bookisArbitraryPower:Romanticism,Language,Politics(2004);previousworks includeShelley’sStyle(1984).Heiscurrentlyworkingondeterminationandplay inlyricpoetry. celeste langanisanAssociateProfessorintheEnglishDepartmentattheUni- versityofCalifornia,Berkeley.SheistheauthorofRomanticVagrancy(Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2006) and several other essays on Romantic poetry. An essayonScott’sLayoftheLastMinstrelledtoherongoinginterestinmediatheory andmediaarchaeology.Hercurrentbookproject,Post-Napoleonism:Imagining Sovereigntyafter1799,interrogatesNapoleonas,amongotherthings,afigureof massmediation. maureen n. mclaneisaLecturerinHistoryandLiteratureatHarvardUniver- sity. She is the author of Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Popula- tion,andtheDiscourseoftheSpecies(CambridgeUniversityPress,2000,2006), Balladeering,Minstrelsy,andtheMakingofBritishRomanticPoetry(Cambridge UniversityPress,2008),andSameLife:Poems(FSE,2008). ann wierda rowlandteaches in the English department at the University of Kansas.ShehaspublishedarticlesonWordsworth,Scott,andtheRomanticballad revival,andiscurrentlyfinishingabookonnotionsofchildhoodandRomantic literaryculture. viii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 contributors susan stewartis the author of Columbarium, which won the National Book CriticsCircleAwardinPoetryin2003,andtheforthcomingRedRover.Herprose works include On Longing, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and The Open Studio.SheisacurrentChancelloroftheAcademyofAmericanPoets,aformer MacArthurFellowandtheAnnanProfessorofEnglishatPrincetonUniversity. ix Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book was commissioned by Linda Bree, Senior Literature Editor at Cambridge, and she supervised each step of its development with steady, cheerful vigilance; her astute comments on these essays were invaluable. Maartje Scheltens handled a number of demanding editorial tasks at Cam- bridgewithaconsistentrigorandgrace.OurthanksaswelltoJoBramwell, our eagle-eyed and most patient copy-editor, and to Elizabeth Davey, who kindly shepherded us through every phase of production. At crucial junc- tures,webenefitedfromtheassistanceofMollieGodfreyandAndrewYale attheUniversityofChicago.GinaDeGiovanniandMichaelMeeuwis,also oftheUniversityofChicago,didthelion’sshareofworkontheChronology. ForhelpfulcommentsontheIntroductionwethankMichaelChandler.And ofcoursewethankourcontributorsfortheirpatiencewiththeprocessand forcommittingtheirconsiderabletalentstotheprojectinthefirstplace:ifthe Romanticsinventedtheconversationpoem,ourcontributorsmadepossible arichlycollaborativeconversationaboutRomanticpoems. x Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
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