Description:
Active Romanticism reveals the vibrant, ongoing influence of nineteenth-century Romantic poetry on today's most innovative poetic practices, challenging the idea that Romanticism is a static or bygone tradition. By tracing the movement's poetic and political radicalism into the present, this collection shows how "active romanticism" responds to pressing social issues and champions democratic pluralism. It offers readers a fresh rethinking of literary history, presenting Romanticism as a dynamic force that renews itself at every moment of cultural crisis.
Review Quotes:
"Moving out across time more than space, Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice . . . brings together poets and some critics to think about a continuing romantic response as active in subsequent poetry, offering an avant-garde rejoinder to continuing oppression and repression." --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900