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Simon Bainbridge. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict.(Book Review)
Studies in Romanticism
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December 22, 2004|
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Simon Bainbridge. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 259. $74.00.
In his succinct study of an extensive corpus of poetry that emerged in Britain between 1793 and 1815 Simon Bainbridge argues that poetry became a "means of defining the imagining of war" and that "war itself bec[ame] a subject that shape[d] and in some cases define[d] the activity of imagining in the romantic period" (21). As the form best suited for the imagining of war, poetry mediated the wars to the ...
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