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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... course, in the social mysticism, the communistic socialism of the present time.' He therefore intimates that the school of opinion which M. Lasserre ably represents is itself a variety of Romanticism.” But it is equally certain that M ...
... course, in the social mysticism, the communistic socialism of the present time.' He therefore intimates that the school of opinion which M. Lasserre ably represents is itself a variety of Romanticism.” But it is equally certain that M ...
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... course, is already the practice of the more cautious and observant literary historians, in so far as they recognize that the 'Romanticism' of one country may have little in common with that of another, and at all events ought to be ...
... course, is already the practice of the more cautious and observant literary historians, in so far as they recognize that the 'Romanticism' of one country may have little in common with that of another, and at all events ought to be ...
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... course, even in the writings of the elder Warton, and still more in other phenomena frequently called 'Romantic, between the 1740's and the 1790's, further elements which cannot be considered here. There is observable, for example, in ...
... course, even in the writings of the elder Warton, and still more in other phenomena frequently called 'Romantic, between the 1740's and the 1790's, further elements which cannot be considered here. There is observable, for example, in ...
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... course, yet in some of their most fundamental and determinative ideas—three 'Romanticisms.” In the first and second we have found certain common elements, but still more significant oppositions; in the second and third we have found ...
... course, yet in some of their most fundamental and determinative ideas—three 'Romanticisms.” In the first and second we have found certain common elements, but still more significant oppositions; in the second and third we have found ...
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... courses, drives, and eddies, like a Leaf in Autumn: a wild activity, of thoughts, imagination, feelings, and impulses of motion, rises up from within me— a sort of bottom-wind, that blows to no point of the compass, and comes from I ...
... courses, drives, and eddies, like a Leaf in Autumn: a wild activity, of thoughts, imagination, feelings, and impulses of motion, rises up from within me— a sort of bottom-wind, that blows to no point of the compass, and comes from I ...
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