Hermann Fischer's lively and original 1991 study of Romantic verse
narrative traces in comprehensive detail the origins and
development of this poetic form in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. It brings together the longer epic verse
tales of Scott, Byron and Southey and the more lyrical forms of
Romantic narrative poetry, thus presenting familiar poems such as
Shelley's 'Alastor' and Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes' in the
revealing but neglected context of the genre and its history.
Professor Fischer addresses the question of genre from a viewpoint
that is both theoretical and historical, and his study also proves
illuminating in many areas of Romantic literature, covering issues
such as the role of the medieval revival and the decline of
neoclassicism, the relative importance of popular and more literary
sources, and questions of changing taste and the reading public.
This translation, extensively revised and updated, makes Hermann
Fischer's acclaimed study available for the first time in English.
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