This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism that animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie.

Stefanie John is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

1 Introduction

2 The Romantic Ideology and its Persistence in Contemporary Poetry

3 Eavan Boland's Challenge to the "Romantic Heresy"

4 Layered Aesthetics in Gillian Clarke's Poetry

5 Proposing the Impossible: Poetry as Ecology in John Burnside's Works

6 Kathleen Jamie's Post-Romantic Formations of Nature

7 Conclusion: Dialogues and Afterlives