"A Century of Sonnets" is a striking reminder that some of the best-known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favourites as Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" ...
A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder of that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favourites as Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" ...
Many readers still associate the Romantic era with six major poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron, John Keats, and William Blake. But recently, critics have challenged this all-male canon, pointing out that, during the Romantic period, women such as Joanna Baillie, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Felicia ...
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) was one of the most popular and influential poets of the 19th century. Her work explores the meaning of being a woman, along with the character and history of the female sex.
Mary Shelley has only recently emerged from the shadows of her famous parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Today, "Frankenstein" (1818, 1831) is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and her other works are attracting renewed attention. These works reveal much about ...
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