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Revolution and Romanticism
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ISBN 185477 213 9 214 x 132 mm 234 pages |
JONATHAN WORDSWORTH Ancestral Voices Ancestral Voices contains essays which originally introduced fifty volumes in the Revolution & Romanticism series, revised and indexed to provide a literary framework of the period. Alongside the great, minor voices turn out to be of importance; the great themselves appear as they first appeared to their contemporaries, not as time has since created them. The book thus provides an insight into the ideological, social and historical underpinning of the revolutionary period, and shows how the poets, playwrights, novelists and thinkers of the time belonged to and transcended it. Paperback £14.95 $21.95 All the essays are altogether interesting; some are brilliant; at least two ... seem to me among the best brief introductions to their subjects ever written. Mr Wordsworth’s prose reveals his own sympathies with the reform politics of the Romantic oeriod, and he is such a master of his material that the telling quotation or anecdote is always at hand. The effect of reading such an essay is of listening to one of our most informed and best critics tell us (in ten minutes or so) what he finds most interesting and most important about one of the central volumes published in England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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