'Four Seasons Fill the Measure of the Year': Romantic Meteorology. (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doyle, Sarah
• Is Part Of: Keats-Shelley review. Volume 35:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 93
• Page End: 99
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Weather -- meteorology -- poetry -- Romanticism -- Wordsworth -- Coleridge -- Clare -- Keats -- Shelley; English poetry -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Romanticism -- England -- Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 821.709
• DOI: 10.1080/09524142.2021.1911171
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-4142

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay offers a critical appreciation of the occurrence and function of meteorological language and imagery in selected Romantic poetry. Focusing on individual poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats and Shelley, I examine the ways in which weather writing in these examples may transcend the observational and become experiential, with weather conditions being a vehicle by which personal concerns can be articulated in a conflation of the external and the internal.