TY - GEN AB - 'Madness and the Romantic Poet' examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the 19th century. The text offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. AU - Whitehead, James, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PN761 ET - First edition. ID - 798837 KW - Romanticism KW - Literature and mental illness KW - English poetry KW - English poetry LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733706.001.0001 N2 - 'Madness and the Romantic Poet' examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the 19th century. The text offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. SN - 9780191798054 T1 - Madness and the romantic poet :a critical history / TI - Madness and the romantic poet :a critical history / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733706.001.0001 ER -