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These Immortal Creations: An Anthology of British Romantic Poetry
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Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9780995029194
Publisher: Universitas Press
Published: Mar 16 2017
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Romantic poet is both man and myth. He inherits an ancient birthright and creates a new heritage. He is prophet, seer, priest, bard, creator of (imaginative) worlds, hero, and myth-maker. He is also a man speaking to other men. Poets are, according to Shelley, the vehicles for the spirit of the age and for the ages to come; they are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In fact, in his Defense of Poetry (1821), Shelley endows both poetry and the poet with divine power, labeling the former immortal creations and the latter a person who participates in the eternal, the infinite and the one.
The poets in this anthology would all define imagination differently; however, they all espoused the primacy of imagination and placed it as the root source for creativity. Imagination is, according to Coleridge, the living Power and prime Agent of all human perception. Blake declared that imagination can see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Wordsworth wrote that Imagination . . . in truth/ Is but another name for absolute power/ And clearest insight.
With its over 120 poems arranged in chronological order, the present anthology follows very closely the development of Romantic poetry in Britain from its beginnings in the 1780s to the early years of Victoria's reign.
This is also the most diverse anthology of Romantic literature: out of twenty-seven authors, fifteen are male and twelve female. The reader will be able to see how the female poets of the Romantic Movement found self-empowerment in the construction, articulation and publication of a feminized poetic identity.
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