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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... lines of nationality or language. What is needed is that any study of the subject should begin with a recognition of a prima-facie plurality of Romanticisms, of possibly quite distinct thought-complexes, a number of which may appear in ...
... lines of nationality or language. What is needed is that any study of the subject should begin with a recognition of a prima-facie plurality of Romanticisms, of possibly quite distinct thought-complexes, a number of which may appear in ...
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... lines of cleavage in modern thought has been more or less effectually concealed by a word. 3. This cleavage between naturalistic and anti-naturalistic 'Romanticism' crosses national lines; and it manifestly cuts, so to say, 19 to THE ...
... lines of cleavage in modern thought has been more or less effectually concealed by a word. 3. This cleavage between naturalistic and anti-naturalistic 'Romanticism' crosses national lines; and it manifestly cuts, so to say, 19 to THE ...
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Modern Essays in Criticism M. H. Abrams. cism' crosses national lines; and it manifestly cuts, so to say, directly through the person of one great writer commonly classed among the initiators of the Romantic movement in France. The ...
Modern Essays in Criticism M. H. Abrams. cism' crosses national lines; and it manifestly cuts, so to say, directly through the person of one great writer commonly classed among the initiators of the Romantic movement in France. The ...
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... Lines Written at Elbingerode in 1799 was to speak of a 'spot with which the heart associates Holy remembrances of child or friend.” His enthusiasm for Hartley in this period is well known. But later, in the Biographia Literaria and in ...
... Lines Written at Elbingerode in 1799 was to speak of a 'spot with which the heart associates Holy remembrances of child or friend.” His enthusiasm for Hartley in this period is well known. But later, in the Biographia Literaria and in ...
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... lines) he has invested them with significance. Here is a special perception, 'invention' if one prefers, 'imagination, or even wit.' It can be explored and tested by the wit of the reader. In this way it differs from the mere flat ...
... lines) he has invested them with significance. Here is a special perception, 'invention' if one prefers, 'imagination, or even wit.' It can be explored and tested by the wit of the reader. In this way it differs from the mere flat ...
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