Erasmus Darwin and the romantic poets

Author(s)

• King-Hele, D. G.

Bibliographic Information

Erasmus Darwin and the romantic poets

by Desmond King-Hele

Macmillan, c1985

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792. In this new book Desmond King-Hele shows in convincing detail how Darwin greatly influenced five major English Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, and many other poets of the time, such as Crabbe and Campbell (but not Byron).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Erasmus Darwin - Blake - Wordsworth - Coleridge the Poet - Coleridge in Prose - The Wider World of Literature - Shelley - Keats - The Younger Generation - Retrospect and Reflections - Index

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Details

• NCID: BA00222720
• ISBN:
  • 0333390105
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 294 p.
• Size: 23 cm.
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR590
  • DC19 : 821/.7/09145
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Poetry in English, 1800-1837. Romanticism. Influence of Darwin, Erasmus
  • BLSH : Darwin, Erasmus1731-1802
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Romanticism