Festivity in Romantic Poetry
In this talk Gregory Dart examines how Romantic poets such as Scott, Burns, Leigh Hunt, Landon, Wordsworth and Keats wrote about festivity, holidays and feasts, and the causes behind their Christmas crisis. AI summary of the listing
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In 1817 Leigh Hunt complained that Christmas had become a 'dreary business'. But why? What were the causes of the Romantics' Christmas crisis? And how did they attempt to address it in their poetry? In this talk Gregory Dart will run through Romantic meditations on festivity, holidays and holydays, feasts and fasts, from Scott and Burns through Leigh Hunt, Letitia Landon and Wordsworth, to Keats, taking in the…
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