Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874 [Hardcover]

This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse. By examining a range of canonical and non-canonical authors-including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne, Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategies of republican poems to the political theory and expressive cultures of republican radicalism. Her new study traces a strain of powerful, complex political poetry that casts new light on the political and literary history of nineteenth-century England.Introduction Republican Demystification in Politics for the People and Blake's Songs of Experience Two Defences of Poetry : Shelley and the Newgate Magazine Cooper and Linton: Chartist Prophets and Craftsmen Landor, Clough, and European Republicanism Meredith, Thomson, and Swinburne, 1867-1874 Conclusion Endnotes IndexSTEPHANIE KUDUK WEINER teaches Romantic and Victorian literature in the English Department at Wesleyan University, USA.