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Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It brings together the longer epic verse tales of Scott, Byron and Southey and the more lyrical forms of Romantic narrative poetry, thus presenting familiar poems such as Shelley's 'Alastor' and Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in the revealing but neglected context of the genre and its history. Professor Fischer addresses the question of genre from a viewpoint that is both theoretical and historical, and his study also proves illuminating in many areas of Romantic literature, covering issues such as the role of the medieval revival and the decline of neoclassicism, the relative importance of popular and more literary sources, and questions of changing taste and the reading public. This translation, extensively revised and updated, makes Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study available for the first time in English.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Romantic Verse Narrative
• Subtitle: The History of a Genre
• Author: Hermann FischerSue Bollans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780521024334
• ISBN: 0521024331
• ID: 02018463
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. March 2006

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