1st Edition
Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
By Stefanie John
Copyright 2021
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poets, and it relates this engagement to wider concerns with gender, nation, and nature which have... Read more
1 Introduction
2 The Romantic Ideology and its Persistence in Contemporary Poetry
3 Eavan Boland’s Challenge to the "Romantic Heresy"
4 Layered Aesthetics in Gillian Clarke’s Poetry
5 Proposing the Impossible: Poetry as Ecology in John Burnside’s Works
6 Kathleen Jamie’s Post-Romantic Formations of Nature
7 Conclusion: Dialogues and Afterlives
Biography
Stefanie John is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
