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The verse of the British Romantic poets is as daunting in its range and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. Now, in a series of 24 incisive lectures by an honored and recognized tutor, scholar, and writer, you can understand how England's finest Loving voices created their masterpieces, as Teacher Spiegelman illuminates poems by Byron, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, as well as by feminine Loving poets like Felicia Dorothea Hemans and Charlotte Turner Smith, who have been, in their time, as admired as their male counterparts. You'll understand how the generalizations frequently put on the Romantic poets - who never even identified themselves as "Romantic" - were misleading as an organization information, but that there have been some common concerns among them: they published about Man's romantic relationship to mother nature, which, with the world, they considered productive, dynamic entities. There exists, though, a counter-desire to flee from nature and to deny Man's connection to it. There's a concern with contemporary society and politics, and an idealistic idea that mankind can transcend its enslaving traditions. The Romantics were conscious of consciousness itself - of the energy of your brain as a force for self-glorification and a seed of self-destruction. Professor Spiegelman's focus on examining the poems is on technique - how a poem accomplishes its aims - and to this end he meticulously dissects them, directing you to definitely points of interest that deserve close observation. And even though the lectures concentrate on the poems themselves, they also tell the story of the great poetic souls and their impact on their age.

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Publisher	The Great Courses
Language	English
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DATE	2013-07
Author	The Great Courses

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