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“The” History Of English Poetry From The Close Of The Eleventh Century To The Commencement Of The Eighteenth Century ; To Which Are Prefixed, Three Dissertations: 1. Of The Origin Of Romantic Fiction In Europe. 2. On The Introduction Of Learning Into England. 3. On The Gesta Romanorum ; From The Edition Of 1824 Superintended By The Late Richard Price, Esq. Including The Notes Of Mr. Ritson, Dr. Ashby, Mr. Douce, And Mr. Park ; Now Further Improved By The Corrections And Additions Of Several Eminent Antiquaries ; In Three Volumes

Thomas Warton

Published: 1840

Total Pages: 534


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This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of British Romanticism. It tells the story of how poets and antiquarian editors in the British nations rediscovered forgotten archaic poetic texts and repurposed them as the foundation of a new concept of the nation, now imagined as a primarily cultural formation. It also draws on legal and ecclesiastical history in drawing a sharp contrast between early modern and Romantic antiquarianisms. Equally a work of literary criticism and history, the book offers provocative new theorizations of nationalism and Romanticism and new readings of major British poets, including Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.