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Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism
Unfettering Poetry The Fancy in British Romanticism Author:Jeffrey C. Robinson Unfettered Poetry calls attention to the pervasive but largely unacknowledged poetics of the "Fancy," an umbrella term for a poetics of excess, play, and visionary defamiliarization written during the British Romantic period. This poetics, Robinson demonstrates, is an early-nineteenth-century version of what will become the visionary, exp... more »erimental, open-form poetics of the twentieth century. Robinson elaborates the importance of the Fancy by defining it historically in the philosophy, aesthetics, and poetic manifestos of the era preceding and just following the French Revolution. He also demonstrates its presence in Romantic poetry and the Romantic essay with canonical and non-canonical figures, familiar male writers, and the recently rediscovered women poets of the Romantic Period.« less