The Orient and the Young Romantics

Andrew Warren

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107786141

Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practised by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally.

'… this book is a compelling critical achievement in part because it is finely wrought, but also because in it Andrew Warren raises questions about the poetry of the second generation that are very much worth raising and discussing … Warren's study offers us real insight and sustained critical pleasures.'

Theresa M. Kelley Source: Studies in Romanticism

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The Orient and the Young Romantics - Half title page
pp i-i

Series page
pp ii-ii

The Orient and the Young Romantics - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgments
pp vi-viii

Introduction
pp 1-45

Chapter 1 - “The Book of Fate” and “The Vice of the East”
pp 46-94

Chapter 2 - Byron’s Lament
pp 95-129

Chapter 3 - The spirit of Oriental solitude
pp 130-184

Chapter 4 - “The great sandy desert of Politics”
pp 185-230

Chapter 5 - “Unperplexing bliss”
pp 231-261

Select bibliography
pp 262-273

Index
pp 274-279

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