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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... universe—are akin to, and probably derivative from, Shaftesbury's Moralists. But in Shaftesbury there is no opposition of 'nature' to 'art' and no antinomian strain, either ethical or aesthetic; decorum,' 'order,' 'balance, and ...
... universe—are akin to, and probably derivative from, Shaftesbury's Moralists. But in Shaftesbury there is no opposition of 'nature' to 'art' and no antinomian strain, either ethical or aesthetic; decorum,' 'order,' 'balance, and ...
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... universe as 'animating Soul.” In the high romantic period the most scientific version to appear in poetry was the now well recognized imagery which Shelley drew from the electricians. In such a view of spirituality the landscape itself ...
... universe as 'animating Soul.” In the high romantic period the most scientific version to appear in poetry was the now well recognized imagery which Shelley drew from the electricians. In such a view of spirituality the landscape itself ...
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... universe to quicken a new birth.” And in the coda, to the blast of the wind sounding this time the apocalyptic trumpet of the general destruction and resurrection, the immense analogy is consummated between the effect of the wind on the ...
... universe to quicken a new birth.” And in the coda, to the blast of the wind sounding this time the apocalyptic trumpet of the general destruction and resurrection, the immense analogy is consummated between the effect of the wind on the ...
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... them totally unrelated. In myth and religion, moreover, wind and breath often play an essential part in the creation both of the universe and of man. In the beginning the spirit, or breath, or wind (ruach). 44 gro. So of Asso. £ools.
... them totally unrelated. In myth and religion, moreover, wind and breath often play an essential part in the creation both of the universe and of man. In the beginning the spirit, or breath, or wind (ruach). 44 gro. So of Asso. £ools.
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... Universe, sometimes retained its primitive airy essence, homogeneous with the soul of man, as well as its power of quasi-literal inspiration. In The Eolian Harp Coleridge speculated that all animated nature may be but organic wind harps ...
... Universe, sometimes retained its primitive airy essence, homogeneous with the soul of man, as well as its power of quasi-literal inspiration. In The Eolian Harp Coleridge speculated that all animated nature may be but organic wind harps ...
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Aeschylus appears associated beauty become beginning Blake Byron called character child Coleridge Coleridge's comes course critics death described Don Juan dream earth effect emotional English example existence experience expression eyes fact Fall feeling figure final give heart heaven hope human idea imagination important innocence interest Keats Keats's kind later least leaves less Letters light lines living look means merely mind moral move nature never object once pain passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry possible present Prometheus question reader reason relation Romantic Romanticism seems sense Shelley Shelley's song soul speak spirit stanza suggest symbols theme things thou thought tion truth turn universe verse vision whole wind Wordsworth writing written