Eliot, a poet-critic treated here only briefly and dismissively, thought poets too preoccupied with their own poetry to write disinterestedly about anyone else's. Poet-critics are not necessarily the best critics. The volume succeeds better in the first aim than in the second, perhaps because the contributors are mostly active poets rather than scholars. On the other, they aim at a genealogy of that impulse, as the subtitle indicates. On the one hand, the essayists aim to show the survival of what they call an "active romanticism" in modern and even more in postmodern poetry. The fourteen essays in this collection make for a book that is difficult to review.
ACTIVE ROMANTICISM: THE RADICAL IMPULSE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY POETIC PRACTICE by Julie Carr and Jeffrey Robinson, eds., Reviewed by George BornsteinĪCTIVE ROMANTICISM: THE RADICAL IMPULSE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY POETIC PRACTICEĬlick here for a PDF version.
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