The Gang (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Worthen
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary history and literary biography
- Time of Work: 1802
- Setting: Cumbria and Yorkshire, England; Calais, France
- Principal Characters: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fricker Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson (Wordsworth), Sara Hutchinson
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Writing, Brothers and sisters, Substance abuse, England or English people, Drug addiction or addicts, Romanticism, Opium
- Locales: England, Calais, France
The poets of the Romantic period in England (roughly 1798-1832) have attracted a great deal of impressive scholarly activity. Such critics as Northrop Frye, Walter Jackson Bate, M. H. Abrams, Jonathan Wordsworth, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Thomas McFarland have investigated Romantic texts with admirable thoroughness. In the process, readers and critics alike have discovered that these poems are more personal than those of earlier periods, that they must be read in the context of other works by the same author. The poems of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor...
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