Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic

"The book deserves a large and passionate readership among both Romanticists and others; I hope it will inspire further work along similar lines." -- Modern Philology"... a collection of essays that is admirable for its quite conservative and utterly convincing account of the structuring presence of the classical rhetorical tradition in the works of several Romantic writers..." -- The Wordsworth CircleRomantic "genius" did not sweep away classical rhetoric. As these essays demonstrate, romantic writers drew upon a number of rhetorical traditions -- including the sophistic, classical, biblical, and enlightenment in the creation of their art.

DON H. BIALOSTOSKY is Professor of English at Penn State University and author of Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments and Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism.LAWRENCE D. NEEDHAM is Affiliate Scholar at Oberlin College and Assistant Professor of English at Lakeland Community College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Method of The Friend	p. 11
"Comparing Power" Coleridge and Simile	p. 28
De Quincey's Rhetoric of Display and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	p. 48
Romantic Prose and Classical Rhetoric	p. 65
Wordsworth's Cintra Tract: Politics, the Classics, and the Duty of the Poet	p. 79
The Oratorical Pedlar	p. 94
Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) and the Epideictic Tradition	p. 108
The Case for William Wordsworth: Romantic Invention versus Romantic Genius	p. 122
The Invention/Disposition of The Prelude, Book I	p. 139
Romantic Aversions: Apostrophe Reconsidered	p. 149
Shelley and the Ciceronian Orator	p. 167
Prophetic Form: The "Still Better Order" of Blake's Rhetoric	p. 185
Robert Lowth's Sacred Hebrew Poetry and the Oral Dimension of Romantic Rhetoric	p. 199
The New Rhetoric and Romantic Poetics	p. 217
The Conversable World: Eighteenth-Century Transformations of the Relation of Rhetoric and Truth	p. 233
Jeanie Deans and the Nature of True Eloquence	p. 250
Appendix: Wordsworth and the Rhetorical Tradition in England (1944)	p. 265
Select Bibliography	p. 281
Contributors	p. 300
Index	p. 302
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