Description
The word "romantic" has so many varied meanings that C. S. Lewis quipped it should be deleted from our vocabulary. Yet, from the perspective of English literature, "romantic" is associated, first and foremost, with the poetry of Romanticism, the movement that accentuated the aesthetic value of emotion, human experience, and the majesty of nature.
In this volume, the finest works of the second generation of Romantic Poets--Byron, Shelley, and Keats--are assembled in an accessible and yet scholarly manner, together with a selection of contemporary criticism by tradition-oriented experts, in order to introduce these poets to a new generation of readers. This second work follows the initial volume featuring the first generation of Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
While the first generation of Romantic Poets were sympathetic to Christianity, Byron, Shelley, and Keats were largely hostile to the Christian Faith. Yet, in spite of this, much of their finest work shines forth the goodness, truth, and beauty which is itself a manifestation of the Divine.
Author: Joseph Pearce
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781586178376
ISBN10: 1586178377
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
About the Author
Joseph Pearce, the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series, is the author of Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, as well as numerous literary biographies on Shakespeare, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and more. He is editor of the St. Austin Review, a magazine of Christian faith and culture. Robert Asch is an English literary critic, specializing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Educated in London and Toronto, he spent most of his adult life in Central Europe, France, and Spain before returning to England.