163 Pages
by
Routledge
163 Pages
by
Routledge
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This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Romantic responses to May Day bring into focus a range of issues now regarded as central to the writing of the period - the natural world, city life, the pastoral, regional and national... Read more
General Editors’ Preface, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, 1. The Rise of Folklore, 2. ‘Precious rites and customs’: The Lake Poets, 3. ‘Very fond of nature, very fond of art’: Leigh Hunt and May Day, 4. May Day in the city: William Blake, 5. ‘a greater fame than poets ever knew’: John Clare and common Fame, 6. Conclusion, Bibliography
Biography
Essaka Joshua is a Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham, UK.
Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.
