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The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse (Hardcover)
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The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse (Hardcover)
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Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian
verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity. Some poets
intended merely to shock or entertain, but Gothic also liberated
the creative imagination and inspired them to enter disturbing
areas of the psyche and to portray extreme states of human
consciousness. This anthology illustrates that journey. This is the
first modern anthology of Gothic verse. It traces the rise of
Gothic in the late eighteenth century and follows its footsteps
through the nineteenth century. Gothic has never truly died as it
constantly reinvents itself, and this lively, illustrated and
annotated anthology offers students the atmospheric poetry that
originally studded terror novels and inspired horror films.
Alongside canonical verse by Coleridge, Keats and Poe, it
introduces readers to lesser-known authors excursions into the
macabre and the grotesque. A wide range of poetic forms is
included: as well as ballads, tales, lyrics, meditative odes and
dramatic monologues, a medievalist romance by Scott and Gothic
drama by Byron are also included in full. A substantial
introduction by Caroline Franklin puts the rise of Gothic poetry
into its historical context, relating it both to Romanticism and
Enlightenment historicism. Although Gothic fiction has now been
receiving serious critical attention for twenty years, Gothic verse
has been largely overlooked. It is therefore hoped that this
anthology will stimulate scholarly interest as well as readers
pleasure in these unearthly poems.
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