Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Republican Demystification in Politics for the People and Blake’s Songs of Experience

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   Pages 17-34

4. Two Defence[s] of Poetry: Shelley and the Newgate Magazine

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5. Cooper and Linton: Chartist Prophets and Craftsmen

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   Pages 66-96

6. Landor, Clough, and European Republicanism

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7. Meredith, Thomson, and Swinburne, 1867–1874

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse. By examining a range of canonical and non-canonical authors-including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne, Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategies of republican poems to the political theory and expressive cultures of republican radicalism. Her new study traces a strain of powerful, complex political poetry that casts new light on the political and literary history of nineteenth-century England.

• England
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• poem
• poetry
• William Blake
• British and Irish Literature

STEPHANIE KUDUK WEINER teaches Romantic and Victorian literature in the English Department at Wesleyan University, USA.

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