Coleridge, Keats and Shelley Contemporary Critical Essays [Paperback]

This volume offers a comprehensive selection of contemporary criticism of three great Romantic poets, ranging from traditional literary scholarship through historicist, feminist, structuralist and poststructuralist readings. Kitson's substantial introduction situates the essays in the general context of the development of critical writing about Romanticism over the last four decades and the volume provides an excellent overview of the current, vibrant state of Romantic studies and some of the exciting ways in which contemporary criticism is developing.

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- P.J.Kitson 'Kubla Khan' and Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theories.- K.M.Wheeler Voice and Ventriloquy in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.- S.Eilenberg Literary Gentlemen and Lovely Ladies: The Debate on the Character of Christabel.- K.Swann Feminizing Keats.- S.J.Wolfson Keats's Lisping Sedition.- N.Roe Keats in the Museum: Between Aesthetics and History, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.- A.W.Phinney 'To Autumn'.- A.Bennett Shelley's 'Mont Blanc': What the Mountain Said.- F.Ferguson 'Mechanism of a Kind yet Unattempted': The Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound.- K.Everest Adonais and the Death of Poetry.- W.A.Ulmer Further Reading Notes on Contributors.- Index.

PETER J KITSON is Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor.