Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets

by D. King-Hele

Overview

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792. In this new book Desmond King-Hele shows in convincing detail how Darwin greatly influenced five major English Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, and many other poets of the time, such as Crabbe and Campbell (but not Byron).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333390108
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/12/1986
Edition description:	1986
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Erasmus Darwin - Blake - Wordsworth - Coleridge the Poet - Coleridge in Prose - The Wider World of Literature - Shelley - Keats - The Younger Generation - Retrospect and Reflections - Index