Politics of Romantic Poetry : In Search of the Pure Commonwealth (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) -- Hardback

In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a function of its style.