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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... seems pure lucidity. The word romantic' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing. It has ... seem possible, while the present uncertainty concerning the nature and locus of Romanticism prevails, to take sides in ...
... seems pure lucidity. The word romantic' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing. It has ... seem possible, while the present uncertainty concerning the nature and locus of Romanticism prevails, to take sides in ...
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... seems to be an idea current that an antinomian temper was, at some time in the eighteenth century, introduced into aesthetic theory and artistic practise by some Romanticist, and that it thence speedily spread to moral feeling and ...
... seems to be an idea current that an antinomian temper was, at some time in the eighteenth century, introduced into aesthetic theory and artistic practise by some Romanticist, and that it thence speedily spread to moral feeling and ...
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... seems to me, that any attempt at a general appraisal even of a single chronologically determinate Romanticism— still ... seem to have much importance or meaning. What will then appear historically significant and philosophically ...
... seems to me, that any attempt at a general appraisal even of a single chronologically determinate Romanticism— still ... seem to have much importance or meaning. What will then appear historically significant and philosophically ...
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... seems still to want discussion; that is, whether romantic poetry (or more specifically romantic nature poetry) exhibits any imaginative structure which may be considered a special counterpart of the subject, the philosophy, the ...
... seems still to want discussion; that is, whether romantic poetry (or more specifically romantic nature poetry) exhibits any imaginative structure which may be considered a special counterpart of the subject, the philosophy, the ...
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... seems to me then a universal spirit, that neither has, nor can have, an opposite. ... where is there room for death?" Similarly with Coleridge's friend, Wordsworth: “Winter winds,' Dorothy wrote, are his delight—his mind I think is ...
... seems to me then a universal spirit, that neither has, nor can have, an opposite. ... where is there room for death?" Similarly with Coleridge's friend, Wordsworth: “Winter winds,' Dorothy wrote, are his delight—his mind I think is ...
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