Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
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- ISBN 9780198129943
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 137 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 1989
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although is is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare, extraordinarily little attention has been paid to how this affected their creative practice and their theories of the imagination. Yet Shakespeare's effect on both was crucial, as Jonathan Bate shows in this detailed study, which includes the first full critical discussions of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, and of the influence of the plays on the poetry of Blake and Coleridge. The book also offers a fresh account of Shakespeare's powerful presence in the letters and poems of Keats and Byron, and in the Romantic drama, especially in Shelley's The Cenci
