Early Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth - Tapa dura

The period in British poetry between the death of Pope and the Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a rich one, yet it has always proved difficult to come to terms with this 'Age of Transition'. This collection raises the whole question of this distinctively eighteenth-century romanticism and demonstrates that the poetry is bold and challenging in its own right. Topics discussed include the political dimension in this work, the need (sometimes literally) to forge a past and the recently rediscovered women poets of the period.

THOMAS WOODMAN studied English at Oxford and took his PhD at Yale. He has taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and, since 1975, at Reading University, where he is now Senior Lecturer in English. His main field is Eighteenth-century Studies, and he has published books on Thomas Parnell, Pope and Johnson. His other major interest is modern fiction, and he has published a book on British Catholic novels.