Reassess the received wisdom that Romantic poetry is mythopoeic by arguing that in order to function as an effective critical term, myth must be defined pragmatically as a genre. Does so: a text that projects a world structured around the three components of supernatural beings, humans, and nature. Then analyzes selected Romantic works within the definition, and concludes that the Romantics' sporadic return to myth represents a reaction against the dominant Romantic discourse of subject and object. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
