Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period

This book provides a lively exploration of the way in which several of the major British Romantic poets confront the writing and theorising of poetry. The question ''What is a poet?'' is asked and answered with great frequency and variety; invariably there is an underlying sense of unease, often in the shadow, as it were, of Wordsworth''s lines: We poets in our youth begin in gladness;/ But thereo...