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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... mind tends to be affected with an inferiority-complex, une impression d'incomplètude, de solitude morale, et presque d'angoisse';* from other passages of the same writer we learn that Romanticism is the imperialistic mood, whether in ...
... mind tends to be affected with an inferiority-complex, une impression d'incomplètude, de solitude morale, et presque d'angoisse';* from other passages of the same writer we learn that Romanticism is the imperialistic mood, whether in ...
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... mind of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries than 'Nature' and 'simple.” Consequently the idea of preferring nature to custom and to art usually carried with it the suggestion of a program of simplification, of ...
... mind of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries than 'Nature' and 'simple.” Consequently the idea of preferring nature to custom and to art usually carried with it the suggestion of a program of simplification, of ...
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... mind introduced by Christianity was distinguished by a certain insatiability; it aimed at infinite objectives and was incapable of lasting satisfaction with any goods actually reached. It became a favorite platitude to say that the ...
... mind introduced by Christianity was distinguished by a certain insatiability; it aimed at infinite objectives and was incapable of lasting satisfaction with any goods actually reached. It became a favorite platitude to say that the ...
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... mind, so completely and methodically does this later 'Romanticist controvert the aesthetic principles and deride the enthusiasm of the English 'Romanticist of 1740. It is worth noting, also, that Chateaubriand at this time thinks almost ...
... mind, so completely and methodically does this later 'Romanticist controvert the aesthetic principles and deride the enthusiasm of the English 'Romanticist of 1740. It is worth noting, also, that Chateaubriand at this time thinks almost ...
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... mind such loose resemblances as need to be stated in the shape of formal similes. Letters (Boston, 1895), I, 404. Cp. Bowles, Sonnets (2d ed., Bath, 1789), Sonnet V, "To the River Wenbeck, 'I listen to the wind, And think I hear meek ...
... mind such loose resemblances as need to be stated in the shape of formal similes. Letters (Boston, 1895), I, 404. Cp. Bowles, Sonnets (2d ed., Bath, 1789), Sonnet V, "To the River Wenbeck, 'I listen to the wind, And think I hear meek ...
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