{"title":"Thomas H. Ford, Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air: Atmospheric Romanticism in a Time of Climate Change","authors":"R. Boyson","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42541028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article sheds new light on the literary relationship between William Wordsworth and the banker-poet Samuel Rogers through transcriptions of previously unpublished letters from Rogers to Wordsworth. The discussions in these letters reveal how both poets were responding to rapid changes in the commercial bookselling market. As a bestselling author with an extensive social network, Wordsworth sought Rogers’s advice for himself and also to discuss the potential publication of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth’s travel journals. The letters provide Rogers’s perspective on the material practice of writing and publishing in the Romantic period, revealing his knowledge about the transactions of other published authors. Consequently, sociability played a pivotal role in the forging and cultivation of professional poetic identity.
{"title":"The Professional Poet in the Romantic Period: Unpublished letters from Samuel Rogers to William Wordsworth","authors":"Charlotte May","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0581","url":null,"abstract":"This article sheds new light on the literary relationship between William Wordsworth and the banker-poet Samuel Rogers through transcriptions of previously unpublished letters from Rogers to Wordsworth. The discussions in these letters reveal how both poets were responding to rapid changes in the commercial bookselling market. As a bestselling author with an extensive social network, Wordsworth sought Rogers’s advice for himself and also to discuss the potential publication of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth’s travel journals. The letters provide Rogers’s perspective on the material practice of writing and publishing in the Romantic period, revealing his knowledge about the transactions of other published authors. Consequently, sociability played a pivotal role in the forging and cultivation of professional poetic identity.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46119167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wordsworth's early poetry was criticised by contemporary reviewers for its ‘obscurity’ and ‘harshness’, and even Coleridge, recalling Descriptive Sketches (1793) in Biographia Literaria (1817), describes a ‘harshness and acerbity connected and combined with words and images all a-glow’. Coleridge also claimed, however, to have perceived ‘the author's genius as it was then displayed’ in apocalyptic lines describing a stormy Alpine sunset evoking a volcanic eruption, with its ‘mountains, glowing hot, like coals of fire’. This essay argues that, in addition to exploring Wordsworth's millennial hopes for post-revolutionary society, the poem's sublime volcanic imagery reveals an interest in geological processes and related religious and political allegories tied to the controversial debate between ‘Neptunian’ and ‘Plutonist’ theories of earth formation. Volcanic metaphor furnished Wordsworth with an aesthetic and epistemological framework within which to explore the human condition and the mind's relationship to the natural world at a time of seismic shifts in the European political landscape.
{"title":"‘Mountains, glowing hot’: The Radical Volcanic Aesthetics of Wordsworth's Early Poetry","authors":"Philip Lindholm","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0576","url":null,"abstract":"Wordsworth's early poetry was criticised by contemporary reviewers for its ‘obscurity’ and ‘harshness’, and even Coleridge, recalling Descriptive Sketches (1793) in Biographia Literaria (1817), describes a ‘harshness and acerbity connected and combined with words and images all a-glow’. Coleridge also claimed, however, to have perceived ‘the author's genius as it was then displayed’ in apocalyptic lines describing a stormy Alpine sunset evoking a volcanic eruption, with its ‘mountains, glowing hot, like coals of fire’. This essay argues that, in addition to exploring Wordsworth's millennial hopes for post-revolutionary society, the poem's sublime volcanic imagery reveals an interest in geological processes and related religious and political allegories tied to the controversial debate between ‘Neptunian’ and ‘Plutonist’ theories of earth formation. Volcanic metaphor furnished Wordsworth with an aesthetic and epistemological framework within which to explore the human condition and the mind's relationship to the natural world at a time of seismic shifts in the European political landscape.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42273399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article prints five new letters from Thomas Mitchell (1783–1845), classical scholar and translator of Aristophanes, to reforming journalist Leigh Hunt. Written between 1810 and 1816, these letters illuminate a creatively significant period for both authors, whose intimacy dates to their student days at Christ's Hospital. While Mitchell's early friendship with Hunt has long been recognised by Hunt scholars, his wider place within Hunt's circle of friends and the extent of his literary collaboration with the editor of The Examiner are still largely unknown. As such, this newly published selection of Mitchell's correspondence allows us to revisit his relationship with Hunt in a fresh light, in the years beyond Christ's Hospital, while providing an opportunity to recover details about the development of Mitchell's career as a Romantic author and translator.
{"title":"Beyond Christ's Hospital: Five Letters from Thomas Mitchell to Leigh Hunt (1810–1816)","authors":"Michael P. Steier","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0582","url":null,"abstract":"This article prints five new letters from Thomas Mitchell (1783–1845), classical scholar and translator of Aristophanes, to reforming journalist Leigh Hunt. Written between 1810 and 1816, these letters illuminate a creatively significant period for both authors, whose intimacy dates to their student days at Christ's Hospital. While Mitchell's early friendship with Hunt has long been recognised by Hunt scholars, his wider place within Hunt's circle of friends and the extent of his literary collaboration with the editor of The Examiner are still largely unknown. As such, this newly published selection of Mitchell's correspondence allows us to revisit his relationship with Hunt in a fresh light, in the years beyond Christ's Hospital, while providing an opportunity to recover details about the development of Mitchell's career as a Romantic author and translator.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42750380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ (1815), Wordsworth condemned Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene in the Iliad’. Pope’s ‘passage of descriptive poetry, which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers’, did not impress Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, all three of whom drew specifically on this verse-paragraph of Pope’s to expose what they perceived to be faulty poetic diction and ‘corrupted’ taste. In the ‘Essay, Supplementary’, Wordsworth argued that a great poet has ‘the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed’. This essay argues that Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth teach poetic taste through their challenge to Pope’s famous nightpiece. In ‘A Night-Piece’ Wordsworth engages intimately with Pope’s diction, form, and imagery in the moonlight scene in order to contest Popean hegemony.
{"title":"Reforming Taste through Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene’: Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth’s ‘A Night-Piece’","authors":"Octavia Cox","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0580","url":null,"abstract":"In ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ (1815), Wordsworth condemned Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene in the Iliad’. Pope’s ‘passage of descriptive poetry, which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers’, did not impress Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, all three of whom drew specifically on this verse-paragraph of Pope’s to expose what they perceived to be faulty poetic diction and ‘corrupted’ taste. In the ‘Essay, Supplementary’, Wordsworth argued that a great poet has ‘the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed’. This essay argues that Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth teach poetic taste through their challenge to Pope’s famous nightpiece. In ‘A Night-Piece’ Wordsworth engages intimately with Pope’s diction, form, and imagery in the moonlight scene in order to contest Popean hegemony.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47086339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Morrison, Thomas De Quincey: 21st-Century Oxford Authors","authors":"J. McDonagh","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47872870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
My discussion of Davy intervenes in several critical debates about Romantic literature and science. First, I show that for Davy, ‘literature’ and science were neither inimical nor even merely analogous disciplines. Poetry was not simply related to scientific discourse because both expressed the enquirer’s understanding of nature; it was formally related to experimental enquiry as a formulation on paper of the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that is both akin to and a preparation for the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that takes form as experimental design. Second, Davy’s poetry, developing Coleridge’s, constitutes a development of the prospect-view tradition in that it is as concerned with the mental process of prospecting as it is with the object viewed. In this respect, it is a modification of the materialist account of perception of the medical and scientific men who set the agenda of the Bristol circle in which both Coleridge and Davy first flourished – Erasmus Darwin and Darwin’s main advocate, their mentor Thomas Beddoes.
{"title":"Mont Blanc Imagined: Poetry, Science and the Prospect-View in Davy and Coleridge","authors":"Tim Fulford","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0577","url":null,"abstract":"My discussion of Davy intervenes in several critical debates about Romantic literature and science. First, I show that for Davy, ‘literature’ and science were neither inimical nor even merely analogous disciplines. Poetry was not simply related to scientific discourse because both expressed the enquirer’s understanding of nature; it was formally related to experimental enquiry as a formulation on paper of the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that is both akin to and a preparation for the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that takes form as experimental design. Second, Davy’s poetry, developing Coleridge’s, constitutes a development of the prospect-view tradition in that it is as concerned with the mental process of prospecting as it is with the object viewed. In this respect, it is a modification of the materialist account of perception of the medical and scientific men who set the agenda of the Bristol circle in which both Coleridge and Davy first flourished – Erasmus Darwin and Darwin’s main advocate, their mentor Thomas Beddoes.","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47049543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Janine Barchas, The Lost Books of Jane Austen","authors":"B. Lau","doi":"10.3366/rom.2023.0583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42939,"journal":{"name":"Romanticism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42742837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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