Book Description: In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden ...
“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,/ It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So wrote WB Yeats in his well-known poem September 1913, as he mournfully reflected on contemporary Irish culture, comparing it ...