Unfettering Poetry

1. Introduction “Poetry Fetter’D Fetters The Human Race
Jeffrey C. Robinson

Part I. Part I

2. Fanciphobia: A History of Skepticism about the Fancy
Jeffrey C. Robinson

3. Lyric Subjects in Romantic Poetry
Jeffrey C. Robinson

4. Cursory Observations on Poetry and Cheerfulness (with an excursion on rhyming tetrameter couplets)
Jeffrey C. Robinson

Part II. Part II

5. A Poetry of Mind: The Della Cruscans, Mary Robinson, and the Fancy at the Time of the French Revolution and Beyond
Jeffrey C. Robinson

6. “Affectionate Eternity”: Leigh Hunt and the Poetics and Politics of the Fancy
Jeffrey C. Robinson

7. The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans
Jeffrey C. Robinson

Part III. Part III

8. The Fancy: From Poetry to Boxing and Back
Jeffrey C. Robinson

9. William Hazlitt’s Poetics of the Fancy in His Select British Poets: A Cockney Anthology, I
Jeffrey C. Robinson

10. Select British Poets, II: Fanciful Readings of Canonical Romanticism
Jeffrey C. Robinson

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature