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Poetry as an occupation and an art in Britain, 1760-1830
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ISBN: 0521440858 0521020867 0511519060 0511833962 9780521440851 9780511519062 9780521020862 Year: 1993 Volume: 3 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Peter Murphy's book examines the tension between the material, economic pressures motivating poetry as an occupation, and traditional notions of the forces of literary history defining poetry as an art. It focuses on five writers in the Romantic period: James MacPherson, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth. The first four are Scottish; the economic and linguistic status of Scotland during the period makes its writers especially interesting as examples of poetic ambition. Murphy's study then crosses the border into England, offering a new perspective on Wordsworth's poetic ambition and career. Murphy's engagement throughout with the ballad revival yields fresh insights into some major concerns of the Romantic period: the interest in the primitive and the simple, experiments with poetic form, the problematics of loss, and the emergence of a new literary culture.

The Cambridge companion to British romanticism
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ISBN: 0521421934 0521333555 9780521421935 9780521333559 9780511999109 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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A unique introduction, guide, and reference work for students and readers of Romantic literature, consisting of eleven original essays.

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