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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
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- Introduction
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- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849; American)
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857; French)
- Théophile Gautier (1811–1872; French)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841; Russian)
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848; English)
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849; American)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849; American)
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857; French)
- Théophile Gautier (1811–1872; French)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841; Russian)
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848; English)
- Part
Summary
Known for his incantatory longer poems, such as “The Raven,” and for his prose tales of mystery and horror, Poe in this early sonnet makes a familiar Romantic complaint against science for stripping away the beautiful myths of the past. Compare Yeats’ similar lament (p. x below). Some Romantics, however, such as Coleridge and Shelley, were intensely interested in the latest scientific research, and thought it bore out their own ideas about nature and the human mind’s connection with it.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021