New PDF release: Romanticism and War: A Study of British Romantic Period

By J. Watson

ISBN-10: 0230514537

ISBN-13: 9780230514539

ISBN-10: 0333801768

ISBN-13: 9780333801765

This booklet is a research of warfare and the perceptions of battle. It bargains particularly with the British Romantic interval writers who lived in the course of the Napoleonic wars, and how within which these wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and lots of in their contemporaries. Watson discusses the actual fascination of these wars, and how during which they affected a fashion of wondering struggle that lasted till the early 20th century.

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32 Godwin’s ferocious rhetoric contrasts the luxury of courts with the hardships of a soldier’s life: he adds one more strain to the argument that war is evil. It is evil not merely because it destroys human beings (‘sensitive beings’) but because it is carried on simultaneously (‘in the midst of’) a court life of gaiety and pomp. ’34 Offensive war, in his view, was a result of the corruption of an undemocratic society, led by its most corrupt members. Thus Godwin and Paine were two of the many writers who took up a high moral position at the start of the war.

18 This is taken from a preface, written much later, to the revised version of the Salisbury Plain poems, the first of which, ‘Salisbury Plain’, was written in the immediate aftermath of his experience, and the second of which, ‘Adventures on Salisbury Plain’, dates from the years between 1793 45 1795 and 1799. ’19 It tells the story of a woman, living happily with her father, until ‘Oppression trampled on his tresses grey’ (257). She turns for help to her lover, who marries her and looks after them both, and by whom she has three children.

It was one of the ways in which the horrors of war were sweetened by a restraining humanity. Perhaps the most spectacular and moving example of this was that of the famous Christmas encounter between German and British soldiers in 1914. Achilles would have understood their behaviour; but, of course, there were staff officers who, like Agamemnon and his other generals, ensured that there was no repetition of such a strange and wonderful event. 3 Fire, famine and slaughter To see war in this way is to complicate what might seem at first to be a simple picture.

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