The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets Romanticism Revised [Paperback]

This book explores the significance of the late poems of the Lake Poets and the establishment of their later careers.Challenging the academically accepted view that the early poems of the Lake Poets were the most significant, Tim Fulford focuses on the importance and innovation of their later work. From this standpoint he argues that Southey's poetry is revealed as comparable with that of Wordsworth and Coleridge.Challenging the academically accepted view that the early poems of the Lake Poets were the most significant, Tim Fulford focuses on the importance and innovation of their later work. From this standpoint he argues that Southey's poetry is revealed as comparable with that of Wordsworth and Coleridge.The long-established association of Romanticism with youth has resulted in the early poems of the Lake Poets being considered the most significant. Tim Fulford challenges the tendency to overlook the later poetry of no longer youthful poets, which has had the result of neglecting the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey of the 1820s and leaving unexamined the three poets' rise to popularity in the 1830s and 1840s. He offers a fresh perspective on the Lake Poets as professional writers shaping long careers through new work, as well as the republication of their early successes. The theme of lateness, incorporating revision, recollection, age and loss, is examined within contexts including gender, visual art, and the commercial book market. Fulford investigates the Lake Poets' later poems for their impact now, while also exploring their historical effects in their own time and counting the costs of their omission from Romanticism.Introduction; Part I. Southey: 1. The Lake Poets and the picturesque view: the visual turn in the late Southey; 2. Poetic hells and pacific edens: Southey's Tale of Paraguay and Byron's The Island; Part II. Coleridge: 3. Print and performance: Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep; 4. The language of love in the late Coleridge:l3Å