Calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the 'Fancy' evident in poetry written during the British Romantic period. These poetics, the author demonstrates, are an early nineteenth-century version of the visionary,...
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Calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the 'Fancy' evident in poetry written during the British Romantic period. These poetics, the author demonstrates, are an early nineteenth-century version of the visionary, experimental, open-form poetics of the twentieth-century
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Poetry Fetter'd Fetters the Human Race""; Part I; Chapter 1 Fanciphobia: A History of Skepticism about the Fancy; Chapter 2 Lyric Subjects in Romantic Poetry; Chapter 3 Cursory Observations on Poetry and Cheerfulness (with an excursion on rhyming tetrameter couplets); Part II; Chapter 4 A Poetry of Mind: The Della Cruscans, Mary Robinson, and the Fancy at the Time of the French Revolution and Beyond; Chapter 5 "Affectionate Eternity": Leigh Hunt and the Poetics and Politics of the Fancy; Chapter 6 The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans
Part IIIChapter 7 The Fancy: From Poetry to Boxing and Back; Chapter 8 William Hazlitt's Poetics of the Fancy in His Select British Poets: A Cockney Anthology, I; Chapter 9 Select British Poets, II: Fanciful Readings of Canonical Romanticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
