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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... child of nature addicted to 'warblings wild.” Shakespeare, said A. W. Schlegel, is not 'eine blindes wildlaufendes Genie'; he had a system in his artistic practise and an astonishingly profound and deeply meditated one.” The same critic ...
... child of nature addicted to 'warblings wild.” Shakespeare, said A. W. Schlegel, is not 'eine blindes wildlaufendes Genie'; he had a system in his artistic practise and an astonishingly profound and deeply meditated one.” The same critic ...
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... child or friend.” His enthusiasm for Hartley in this period is well known. But later, in the Biographia Literaria and in the third of his essays on 'Genial Criticism,” he was to repudiate explicitly the Hartleyan and mechanistic way of ...
... child or friend.” His enthusiasm for Hartley in this period is well known. But later, in the Biographia Literaria and in the third of his essays on 'Genial Criticism,” he was to repudiate explicitly the Hartleyan and mechanistic way of ...
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... Child! Almost the same statement as that of Bowles' sonnet—the sweet scenes of childhood by the river have only to be remembered to bring both beguilement and melancholy. One notices immediately, however, that the speaker has kept his ...
... Child! Almost the same statement as that of Bowles' sonnet—the sweet scenes of childhood by the river have only to be remembered to bring both beguilement and melancholy. One notices immediately, however, that the speaker has kept his ...
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... children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Or, as one might drably paraphrase, our souls in a calm mood look back to the infinity from which they came, as persons inland on clear days can look back to ...
... children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Or, as one might drably paraphrase, our souls in a calm mood look back to the infinity from which they came, as persons inland on clear days can look back to ...
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... children found on the seashore? In what way do they add to the solemnity or mystery of the sea? Or do they at all? The answer is that they are not strictly parts of the traveler-space vehicle, but of the soulage-time tenor, attracted ...
... children found on the seashore? In what way do they add to the solemnity or mystery of the sea? Or do they at all? The answer is that they are not strictly parts of the traveler-space vehicle, but of the soulage-time tenor, attracted ...
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