The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism
Description
In this important study, Anthony Harding examines the ways in which mythology was received and reinterpreted by the most prominent English Romantic poets. Although there have been studies that examined a particular author's interest in various mythic traditions, none has addressed the wider question of the contemporary reception of myth: what sources the Romantics turned to, what the influential schools of mythography were, and what roles the individual writers gave to mythology or to particular myths in their work. In The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, Harding deals with ...
ISBN(s)
0826210074, 9780826210074
