Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

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"Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Tedeschi explores the notion that the Romantic poets criticized the historical form that the process of urbanization had taken, rather than urbanization itself. The works of the Romantic poets are popularly considered in a rural context and often understood as hostile to urbanization - one of the most profound social transformations of the era. By focusing on the urban aspects of such writing Tedeschi re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry to deliver a study that discovers how the Romantic poets examined not only the influence of urbanization on poetry but also how poetry might help to reshape the form that urbanization could take"-- "During the three hundred years preceding the Romantic period, the portion of the population of England that lived in cities - largely in London but also in port cities, manufacturing towns, and regional trading and administrative centers - increased along with the expansion of the nation's commercial, manufacturing, and financial activity"--

subjects: English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century,  Urbanization,  Romanticism, great britain,  English poetry,  History and criticism,  History,  Urbanization in literature,  Romanticism,  Verstädterung,  Romantik,  Lyrik,  Englisch