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Southey, Robert: Das lyrische Werk
Das lyrische Werk des Autors steht bis heute im Schatten seiner romantischen Dichterkollegen William Wordsworth und Samuel Taylor Coleridge ....
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The ‘Entire Man of Letters’?: Robert Southey, Correspondence and Romantic Incompleteness
‘[I]ncompleteness, fragmentation, and ruin’ have been described as central to ‘both the theory and the actuality of Romanticism’. In contrast,...
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Southey, Robert
1793–1794 Besuch des Balliol College (Oxford), kein Abschluss; wurde neben Wordsworth und...
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The Style Historic: The Gothic Line from the Lake Poets to William Morris
This chapter discusses the continuities and contrasts between “Gothic Romanticism” and “Victorian Medievalism,” focusing on the linked and parallel...
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Chapter Three: Succeeding in ‘the Worst Trade’
This chapter considers the ways in which three writers leveraged their social advantages to construct enduring literary careers. Robert Southey first...
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The Social Insect and the Fashionable Newspaper: Reading Bee Poems in the World and the Morning Post
Fashionable West End newspapers such as the Oracle, the Morning Post and the World became an important space for the publication of original poetry...
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Gothic Romanticism Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form
Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Formoffers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in...
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Stuart’s Post and the Reign of Mary Robinson
This chapter turns its attention to the most important Della Cruscan poet to appear in the papers in the years immediately following France’s...
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Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews
This chapter looks at the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review, contending that their conductors were pioneers in successfully professionalising...
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‘Yet Are Spain’s Maids No Race of Amazons’: Spain’s Female Warriors in Anglo-European Drama
The Peninsular War, commencing in 1808, catalyses a gradual shift in the armed woman’s reputation in Britain. A striking symbol in the 1790s of...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter establishes the main argument of the book: that when Coleridge alludes to other poets, he does not merely pay homage or...
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Introduction: Poetry and the Rise of the Fashionable Newspaper
This chapter introduces the world of the fashionable newspaper of the eighteenth century. It argues that in a number of important respects,...
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Englischsprachiger Raum
Im 19. Jh., ausgehend von der Romantik, kommt es zu einer Renaissance der epischen Form, nachdem die Gattung im Laufe des 18. Jhs. zunehmend in den...
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Coleridge and Whig Politics, 1794–1796
This chapter defines Whiggism in the long eighteenth century, highlighting Coleridge’s points of contact with, and divergence from, Whig political...
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Robert Southey and the Peninsular Campaign
This essay examines two aspects of Southey’s Romantic Iberianism that have often been overlooked—his writings on the peninsular conflict in the...
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Chapter Four: The Working Writer
This chapter examines the difficulties that faced most authors who tried to construct literary careers in the period, employing the extensive archive...
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Coleridge, Enthusiasm, and Bowles
Coleridge’s use of the tradition of the Whig sublime opened him up to being attacked as an enthusiast. When denouncing the French Revolution, Edmund...
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Retirement Politics in the Fears in Solitude Quarto
This chapter considers Fears in Solitude, ‘France. An Ode’, and ‘Frost at Midnight’, published as the Fears in Solitude quarto in 1798. While the...
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Elliott, Ebenezer
Übernahm von seinem Vater eine kleine Eisengießerei; 1816 Bankrott; später Eisen- und Stahlwarenhändler in Sheffield; Bekanntschaft mit Robert...
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Wordsworth’s Early History: “Michael” and The Recluse
This chapter goes back to “Michael, A Pastoral Poem” (1800), reading it as a “Gothic” history in the specific Wordsworthian sense developed in this...