Strategy for Reconciliation in English Drama of the Romantic Period: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Illegitimate Theatre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Bo-ra Im
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Reformation ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Lamb

Fuller’s books about England’s religious past helped to stimulate an outpouring of historical writing. Peter Heylyn wrote about some of the same subjects as Fuller, and so did Gilbert Burnet, Edward Stillingfleet, John Strype, and Jeremy Collier. Burnet, who looked for models for his history of the English Reformation, was sarcastic about Fuller, partly because of the latter’s “odd way of writing.” Fuller’s work was not highly regarded in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the nineteenth century Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge deeply admired him for his insights and praised him for his writing. Several nineteenth-century historians defended his work. His reputation has remained uncertain, despite fresh assessments in recent years. Coleridge was remarkably apt in his viewpoint. Fuller saw the broader significance of the events he described and was one of the most sensible scholars and writers of his time.

The first item in the first issue of The Liberal: Byron's The Vision of Judgement

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Period ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
Leigh Hunt

The Liberal is one of the most important journals of the Romantic period, the brainchild of Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and Byron. It was inevitable that Byron's poem, an attack on Robert Southey, the poet laureate, would be in the first issue. 7,000 copies were printed and 4,000 sold, enough to make the new journal a huge success.

1780–1820 Southey’s New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-282
Author(s):  
Thomas Keymer
Keyword(s):  
Free Radical ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
William Cobbett

Phases of high political tension during the Romantic period, notably under Pitt after the French Revolution and under Liverpool following the Napoleonic Wars, indicate the ongoing importance, and sometimes the severity, of press control between 1780 and 1820. But control was becoming more difficult in practice, and the consequences for poetry and other literary genres are sometimes overstated at a time when the overwhelming priority for the authorities was cheap (or worse, free) radical print. This chapter surveys key cases of prosecution and/or pillorying across the period (Daniel Isaac Eaton, Walter Cox, William Hone, William Cobbett), and argues that the writers now central to the Romantic canon were relatively unaffected. The striking exception is Robert Southey, whose incendiary Wat Tyler, which embarrassingly emerged at the height of Southey’s Tory pomp two decades later, is newly contextualized and interpreted.

Bunyan and the Romantics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Shears
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Reception History ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Conversion Narrative ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Walter Scott

This chapter re-examines the influence that John Bunyan exercised on some major figures of the Romantic period. It argues that while writers like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Scott are rightly remembered for their role in separating theological from realistic content in the reception history of The Pilgrim’s Progress, this should not be viewed as the totality of Romantic response to Bunyan’s work. The chapter examines how the Protestant conversion narrative was developed and altered by writers like Wordsworth and Scott, and the ways in which Blake and Coleridge in particular attended carefully to, and drew imaginative inspiration from, the specific details of soteriology in The Pilgrim’s Progress. The chapter argues that while the Romantic response to Bunyan was revisionary, it was more attentive to his beliefs than some of the commentary of the period—such as Coleridge’s notorious distinction between ‘conventicle’ and ‘Parnassus’—would suggest.

Intertextual Dialogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Lau
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
John Clare ◽  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
First Time ◽  
Intertextual Dialogue

Intertextual dialogue in the Romantic period is shaped by conflicting imperatives. Romantic writers lived in an age when the pressure to be original and natural coincided for the first time to a significant degree with the worship and canonization of previous British authors, especially such ‘geniuses’ as Shakespeare and Milton. Major figures from every genre of the period can be seen to negotiate the competing demands to acquire legitimacy by invoking other, recognized writers, and to express their own unique vision and style—both to fit into existing literary tradition and to stand out as unique. This chapter explores the complications of intertextual dialogue in five representative authors across a variety of genres: the essayist and critic William Hazlitt, the poet and writer of marginalia Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the novelist Jane Austen, and poets John Clare and John Keats.

Mountaineering and British Romanticism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Visual Sovereignty ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
The Relationship

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened ‘mountaineering’ in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognized, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity’s evolution. It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped Romantic-period literary culture, and investigates how the figure of the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary outputs. Illustrated with twenty-five images from the period, the book shows how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with mountaineering’s power dynamics and investigates issues including the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms ‘visual sovereignty’), the relationships between different types of ‘mountaineers’, and the role of women in the developing cultures of ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision, insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence and the sublime. It opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.

Retrospectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 210-228
Author(s):  
Peter Auger
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Robert Southey

Although Devine Weekes was read and admired throughout the seventeenth century, writers came to regard it as an outdated gathering of mythical information. Later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century poets (such as Susanna Hopton, Thomas Ellwood, and Richard Blackmore) continued to test the relation between faith, empiricism, and poetry with Du Bartas as a distant precursor. The Lake Poets (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey) remembered Du Bartas’ place in literary history, perhaps aware that he was an oblique precursor to literary Romanticism, even if he ignored the role of the creative consciousness. Du Bartas’ poetry should not just be read for its historical significance or as a source for other writers, but in dialogue with those who read and imitated his works.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Simon Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Dorothy Wordsworth

This ‘Introduction’ establishes the importance of the activity Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened ‘mountaineering’ for the literature of the Romantic period. It discusses the etymologies of the words ‘mountaineering’ and ‘mountaineer’, showing how they indicated the creation of a new activity and identity. The chapter outlines the mountaineering pursuits and writings of a number of the period’s authors, including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, John Keats, and Ellen Weeton, exploring the emerging link between ascent and literary authority. The introduction situates the overall study in terms of current research in the fields of mountaineering and Romantic-era literature.

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