Title British poetry and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars : visions of conflict / Simon Bainbridge

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) Contents Poetry in the 'age of war' -- The poetic imagining of war in the 1790s : Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- 'Was it for this ...?' : War and poetic identity in the writings of Southey and Wordsworth, 1793-1802 -- 'Men we are' : poetry, war and gender in Wordsworth's political sonnets, 1802-1803 -- Walter Scott's picturesque romance of war, 1805-1814 -- 'History in the land of romance' : poetry and the Penninsular War, 1808-1828 -- Epilogue : the 'Sir Walter disease' and the legacy of romantic war Summary This text argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-252) and index Notes Print version record Subject Revolutionary poetry, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Literature and the wars War and literature. English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism English poetry. Revolutionary poetry, English. War and literature. English Literature. Literature - General. English. Languages & Literatures. SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution Subject France. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Oxford University Press ISBN 9780191718922 0191718920

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