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In this important study, Anthony Harding examines ways in which mythology was received and reinterpreted by most prominent English Romantic poets. Although there have been studies that examined a particular author's interest in various traditions, none has addressed wider question of contemporary reception of myth: what sources Romantics turned to, what influential schools of mythography were, and what roles individual writers gave to mythology or to particular myths in their work. In The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, Harding deals with those questions by examining how Romantic writers understood and received myth and what they understood the mythic to be. He shows how Romantics' own mythmaking drew its meaning from contemporary political scene and contemporary ideological conflicts, rather than from a concept of myth as a timeless, unchanging source of value. Harding analyzes uses of myth in selected texts of period, covering work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, among others. Including a valuable bibliography of primary and secondary sources, The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism fills a major void in Romantic studies. This book will be of great benefit to specialists in English Romanticism and to anyone with a serious interest in mythology.
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