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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... Imagination, as contrasted with Reason and the Sense of Fact”—which I take to be ways of expressing a by no means synonymous pair of psychological antitheses. Typical manifestations of the spiritual essence of Romanticism have been ...
... Imagination, as contrasted with Reason and the Sense of Fact”—which I take to be ways of expressing a by no means synonymous pair of psychological antitheses. Typical manifestations of the spiritual essence of Romanticism have been ...
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... imagination and his expression, that proved him Nature's true pupil. Now this aesthetic inference had not, during the neo-classical period, ordinarily been drawn from the current assumption of the superiority of nature to art. The ...
... imagination and his expression, that proved him Nature's true pupil. Now this aesthetic inference had not, during the neo-classical period, ordinarily been drawn from the current assumption of the superiority of nature to art. The ...
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... imagination. For man, the artificial, Friedrich Schlegel observed, is natural.' 'Die Abstraktion ist ein kiinstlicher Zustand. Dies ist kein Grund gegen sie, dennes ist dem Menschen gewiss natiirlich, sich dann und wann auch in ...
... imagination. For man, the artificial, Friedrich Schlegel observed, is natural.' 'Die Abstraktion ist ein kiinstlicher Zustand. Dies ist kein Grund gegen sie, dennes ist dem Menschen gewiss natiirlich, sich dann und wann auch in ...
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... imagination, and especially to the version of that theory which Coleridge derived from the German metaphysicians, the view of poetic imagination as the esemplastic power which reshapes our primary awareness of the world into symbolic ...
... imagination, and especially to the version of that theory which Coleridge derived from the German metaphysicians, the view of poetic imagination as the esemplastic power which reshapes our primary awareness of the world into symbolic ...
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Modern Essays in Criticism M. H. Abrams. special sensibility, and a theory of poetic imagination—the value of the ... imaginative structure which may be considered a special counterpart of the subject, the philosophy, the sensibility, and ...
Modern Essays in Criticism M. H. Abrams. special sensibility, and a theory of poetic imagination—the value of the ... imaginative structure which may be considered a special counterpart of the subject, the philosophy, the sensibility, and ...
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