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"Like P. B. Shelley, calling upon 'the phantoms of a thousand hours, ' Mark Sandy conjures the mind and spirit, the sentient presence in nature, animating the literary heritage. Liberating the transactions of Romanticism from timebound chronologies, Sandy illuminates brilliantly the literary engagement with dynamic nature in a wide diversity of American authors of the last century.-- ""Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles"" Mark Sandy has written a ghost story. This is a book in which the influence of British Romanticism on American literature is described in terms of haunting, echo and poetic resonance. Sandy argues that American writers performed a failed and somewhat half-hearted, exorcism. He suggests that they used their Romantic inheritance to fashion an aesthetic of self and nature that appeared to be--and wanted to be--more independent and existentially charged than that of their British forbears... The result, Sandy argues, was something of a double haunting: a confrontation with the spectre of British Romantic writing that manifested as a ghostly self-reflexive feeling of alienation.--Linda Freedman ""The Review of English Studies"" There is much to admire in Sandy's contribution to expanding the reach and relevance of romanticism.--David J. Langston ""Wallace Stevens Journal"""

Like P. B. Shelley, calling upon 'the phantoms of a thousand hours, ' Mark Sandy conjures the mind and spirit, the sentient presence in nature, animating the literary heritage. Liberating the transactions of Romanticism from timebound chronologies, Sandy illuminates brilliantly the literary engagement with dynamic nature in a wide diversity of American authors of the last century.-- ""Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles"" Mark Sandy has written a ghost story. This is a book in which the influence of British Romanticism on American literature is described in terms of haunting, echo and poetic resonance. Sandy argues that American writers performed a failed and somewhat half-hearted, exorcism. He suggests that they used their Romantic inheritance to fashion an aesthetic of self and nature that appeared to be--and wanted to be--more independent and existentially charged than that of their British forbears... The result, Sandy argues, was something of a double haunting: a confrontation with the spectre of British Romantic writing that manifested as a ghostly self-reflexive feeling of alienation.--Linda Freedman ""The Review of English Studies"" There is much to admire in Sandy's contribution to expanding the reach and relevance of romanticism.--David J. Langston ""Wallace Stevens Journal""

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Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University. His research interests are Romantic and nineteenth-century poetics and twentieth-century American Literature. His publications include Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate 2005; Routledge, 2019) and Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (Ashgate, 2013).

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