Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Original Response'
1: 'The All-Sustaining Air': Variations on a Romantic Metaphor
2: 'A Vision of Reality': Mid-to-Late Yeats
3: 'Dialectic Ways': T. S. Eliot and Counter-Romanticism
4: 'The Guts of the Living': Auden and Spender in the 1930s
5: 'The Death of Satan': Stevens's `Esthétique du Mal', Evil, and the Romantic Imagination
6: 'Shining in Modest Glory': Post-Romantic Strains in Kavanagh, Heaney, Mahon, and Carson
7: : 'Just Another Twist in the Plot': Paul Muldoon's Madoc
8: 'Deep Shocks of Recognition' and 'Gutted' Romanticism: Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher

About the Author

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic literature, especially the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on an array of British, Irish, and American twentieth- and twenty-first century poets. He received the Eric Gregory Award in 1983 for his poetry and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 1990. He is a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham
University (launched 2006).

Reviews

...absorbing study...a pleasure to read. Its subtitle speaks of 'legacies and renewals', and the book's own commitment to renewals of various kinds should ensure it a sustaining afterlife in future studies of Romantic and modern poetry. Matthew Bevis, Review of English Studies