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Formal Charges The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism

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ISBN-10: 0804736626

ISBN-13: 9780804736626

Edition: 1997

Authors: Susan J. Wolfson

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Formal Charges considers controversies about poetic form and formalism from the romantic era to our own, analyses works by Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley, and reviews recent attacks on formalist criticism.
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Susan J. Wolfson is a professor of English at Princeton University and author of many essays on and editions of Romantic-era writers. Her books include The Questioning Presence; Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism; and, most recently, Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism.

Abbreviations
Formal Intelligence: Formalism, Romanticism, and Formalist Criticism
Sketching Verbal Form: Blake's Poetical Sketches
The Formings of Simile: Coleridge's "Comparing Power"
Revision as Form: Wordsworth's Drowned Man
Heroic Form: Couplets, "Self," and Byron's Corsair
Teasing Form: The Crisis of Keats's Last Lyrics
Social Form: Shelley and the Determination of Reading
Afterword: Forms of Criticism
Notes
Works Cited
Index