ABSTRACT
The conclusion summarises Boland’s, Clarke’s, Burnside’s, and Jamie’s engagement with Romantic legacies, which is marked by continuity and difference. It stresses the dynamic character of their post-Romantic practice, which is grounded in the challenge of reconciling non-English poetic and regional identities and feminist and ecopoetic concerns with the aesthetic inspiration that the culturally centralised Romantic canon offers. The chapter brings four further poets – Alice Oswald, Christine Evans, Moya Cannon, and Jen Hadfield – within the orbit of the book’s argument. From Oswald’s rewriting of Wordsworth to Cannon’s revival of Keats, their works exemplify that Romanticism continues to animate poetry in the new millennium.
