Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism

Suppressed because of its copyright-busting section of "Living Poets," Hazlitt's proof-page anthology gains a champion in Robinson for its unequalled contemporary selection of Romantic-era poets-a selection, moreover, keyed to the play of Robinson's favored "fancy" and...

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Published in:Studies in romanticism 2008, Vol.47 (3), p.417-420
Main Author: Sweet, Nanora
Format: Review
Language:English
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Anthologies
Clare, John (1793-1864)
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835)
Pessoa, Fernando Antonio Nogueira (1888-1935)
Poetry
Poets
Roe, Nicholas
Romanticism
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Summary:Suppressed because of its copyright-busting section of "Living Poets," Hazlitt's proof-page anthology gains a champion in Robinson for its unequalled contemporary selection of Romantic-era poets-a selection, moreover, keyed to the play of Robinson's favored "fancy" and not the Romantic "imagination" canonized in the twentieth century. Chapter 5 identifies Hunt's Cockney circle as a male, homosocial, implicitly homoerotic coterie, adding this frisson to Leigh Hunt's symposium-style poems A Feast of the Poets (rev. 181 5) and "Fancy's Party" from the 1818 Foliage - "published," as Robinson notes with pleasure, "a year after another leafiness, Coleridge's Sibylline Leaves" (154).
ISSN:0039-3762
2330-118X