The Cambridge Companion to British Ro…
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six male Romantic poets who until recently tended to dominate the anthologies, all were initially meant to be pursuing other careers: Blake in the visual arts, Wordsworth in law, Coleridge in the ministry, Byron in politics, Shelley in science, Keats in medicine. All came to see poetry as where the action was, even as they disagreed about what counted — location: 250
Theodor Adorno mordantly suggested that Keats and Shelley – with their lyric virtuosities and ostentatious musicality – might be seen as the “locum tenentes of nonexistent great English composers.”3 — location: 248
There is yet another kind of indicator of the distinctive place of poetry in Romanticism and of Romanticism in poetry, made visible in the role that Romantic poetry has played in the development of modern criticism and of “English” as an academic discipline. — location: 260