Series Editor: Joseph Pearce

 
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Romantic Poets, Volume II

Edited by Joseph Pearce and Robert Asch

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The word "romantic" has so many varied meanings that C. S. Lewis suggested it should be removed from our vocabulary.

The word "romantic" has so many varied meanings that C. S. Lewis suggested it should be removed from our vocabulary. However, in the context of English literature, "romantic" primarily refers to the poetry of Romanticism - a movement that emphasized the aesthetic value of emotion, human experience, and the majesty of nature. This volume presents the finest works of the second generation of Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - alongside a selection of contemporary criticism by tradition-oriented experts. The aim is to introduce these poets to a new generation of readers in an accessible yet scholarly manner.

Essays

  • Keats as Sonneteer and Balladeer (Raimund Borgmeier)
  • "Close Reading" and the Political Lyrics of Percy Shelley (Robert C. Evans)
  • Clipping an Angel's Wings: Science, Poetry, and the Late Romantics (Amy Fahey)
  • Shake Your Chains to Earth like Dew: Shelley and the Industrial Revolution (James E. Hartley)
  • Lord Byron Learns to Laugh: The Perfecting and Exorcising of the Byronic Hero (Louis Markos)
  • John Keats' Five Spring Odes and "To Autumn": The Drama of the Soul's Priest, Poet, and Prophet (Russell Elliott Murphy)

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Meet the Minds behind the Romantic Poets II

About the Editors

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Joseph Pearce

JOSEPH PEARCE is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, as well as popular biographies of Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the general editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series.

Robert Asch

ROBERT ASCH is the editor of the Saint Austin Press and co-editor of the Saint Austin Review. His books include Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose (Saint Austin Press) and the first volume of The Romantic Poets (Ignatius Press). He lives in Preston, England with his wife and children.

Contributors

Robert Asch is the editor of the Saint Austin Press and coeditor of the St. Austin Review. His books include Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose (Saint Austin) and The Romantic Poets, volume I (Ignatius Press). He lives in Preston, England, with his wife and children.

Raimund Borgmeier is Emeritus Professor of English literature at the University of Giessen, Germany. He has worked and published on Shakespeare, the poetry of the eighteenth century and the Romantic movement, and Victorian and contemporary fiction (including science fiction and crime fiction). Several times, he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, both in Madison and Milwaukee.

Robert C. Evans is the I. B. Young Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is widely published and is especially interested in close reading and critical pluralism. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Folger, Newberry, and Huntington Libraries, among others.

Amy Fahey holds a doctorate in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.Phil. in medieval literature from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She has taught literature courses at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Christendom College.

James E. Hartley is professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches Macroeconomic Theory, Money and Banking, and Principles of Economics, among other economics courses. Outside the Economics Department, he has also taught multiple courses using the Great Books, including Western Civilization: An Introduction through the Great 590, The Romantic Poets II Books, Leadership and the Liberal Arts, Is Business Moral? (developed with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities), Reflections on War, C. S. Lewis, and numerous tutorials and reading groups on the Western Canon.

Louis Markos is professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University, and he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His twenty-five books include Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World like a Romantic Poet; Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition; Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age; Literature: A Student's Guide; From Achilles to Christ; and The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes.

Russell Elliott Murphy is professor emeritus with the Department of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Among his many publications are Structure and Meaning, Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot, The Meaning of Byzantium in the Poetry and Prose of W. B. Yeats, and Spent, a novel. Since 1987, he has been the editor and publisher of the Yeats Eliot Review.

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