{"title":"‘Four Seasons Fill the Measure of the Year’: Romantic Meteorology","authors":"Sarah Doyle","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2021.1911171","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay offers a critical appreciation of the occurrence and function of meteorological language and imagery in selected Romantic poetry. Focusing on individual poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats and Shelley, I examine the ways in which weather writing in these examples may transcend the observational and become experiential, with weather conditions being a vehicle by which personal concerns can be articulated in a conflation of the external and the internal.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"35 1","pages":"93 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911171","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2021.1911171","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"POETRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay offers a critical appreciation of the occurrence and function of meteorological language and imagery in selected Romantic poetry. Focusing on individual poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats and Shelley, I examine the ways in which weather writing in these examples may transcend the observational and become experiential, with weather conditions being a vehicle by which personal concerns can be articulated in a conflation of the external and the internal.
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The Keats-Shelley Review has been published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association for almost 100 years. It has a unique identity and broad appeal, embracing Romanticism, English Literature and Anglo-Italian relations. A diverse range of items are published within the Review, including notes, prize-winning essays and contemporary poetry of the highest quality, around a core of peer-reviewed academic articles, essays and reviews. The editor, Professor Nicholas Roe, along with the newly established editorial board, seeks to develop the depth and quality of the contributions, whilst retaining the Review’s distinctive and accessible nature.