English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in CriticismM. H. Abrams This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con. |
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... beginnings in the seventeenth-century' or a little earlier, in such books as 'the Arcadia or the Grand Cyrus';7 from Mr. J. E. G. de Montmorency that it was born in the eleventh century, and sprang from that sense of aspiration which ...
... beginnings in the seventeenth-century' or a little earlier, in such books as 'the Arcadia or the Grand Cyrus';7 from Mr. J. E. G. de Montmorency that it was born in the eleventh century, and sprang from that sense of aspiration which ...
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... beginning of this process of transformation some subtle leaven was already at work which made the final outcome inevitable; the fact remains that in most of its practically significant sympathies and affiliations of a literary, ethical ...
... beginning of this process of transformation some subtle leaven was already at work which made the final outcome inevitable; the fact remains that in most of its practically significant sympathies and affiliations of a literary, ethical ...
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... beginning of a deliberate and vigorous insurrection against the naturalistic assumptions that had been potent, and usually dominant, in modern thought for more than three centuries, is actually treated as if it were a continuation of ...
... beginning of a deliberate and vigorous insurrection against the naturalistic assumptions that had been potent, and usually dominant, in modern thought for more than three centuries, is actually treated as if it were a continuation of ...
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... beginning in Joseph Warton; he had not only felt intensely but had even gratified the yearning to live 'with simple Indian swains.” That the Chateaubriand of 1801 represents just as clearly a revolt against this entire tendency is ...
... beginning in Joseph Warton; he had not only felt intensely but had even gratified the yearning to live 'with simple Indian swains.” That the Chateaubriand of 1801 represents just as clearly a revolt against this entire tendency is ...
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... beginning of this work, in fact, the recurrent wind serves unobtrusively as a leitmotif, representing the chief theme of continuity and interchange between outer motions and the interior life and powers, and providing the poem with a ...
... beginning of this work, in fact, the recurrent wind serves unobtrusively as a leitmotif, representing the chief theme of continuity and interchange between outer motions and the interior life and powers, and providing the poem with a ...
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