TY - BOOK AU - Woodman, Thomas, ed. TI - Early romantics: perspectives in British poetry from Pope to Wordsworth SN - 033371459 U1 - 821.609145 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - English literature- Romantic period N2 - The period in British poetry between the death of Pope and the Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a rich one, yet it has always proved difficult to come to terms with this 'Age of Transition'. This collection raises the whole question of this distinctively eighteenth-century romanticism and demonstrates that the poetry is bold and challenging in its own right. Topics discussed include the political dimension in this work, the need (sometimes literally) to forge a past and the recently rediscovered women poets of the period ER -