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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Page 27
... verse and a physico-theological momenclature, are to be found in Thomson's Seasons. Both a new sensibility and a new structure appear in the hamlets brown and dim-discovered spires' of Collins' early example of the full romantic dream ...
... verse and a physico-theological momenclature, are to be found in Thomson's Seasons. Both a new sensibility and a new structure appear in the hamlets brown and dim-discovered spires' of Collins' early example of the full romantic dream ...
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... verse . . . . To the open fields I told A prophecy: poetic numbers came Spontaneously, and cloth'd in priestly robe My spirit, thus singled out, as it might seem, For holy services. . . . And a bit farther on comes the remaining element ...
... verse . . . . To the open fields I told A prophecy: poetic numbers came Spontaneously, and cloth'd in priestly robe My spirit, thus singled out, as it might seem, For holy services. . . . And a bit farther on comes the remaining element ...
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... Verse,” and now, made visible by the tossing boughs of his favorite grove, once again Spreads through me a commotion like its own, Something that fits me for the Poet's task. (VII, 1-56) Wordsworth's account of his mental breakdown in ...
... Verse,” and now, made visible by the tossing boughs of his favorite grove, once again Spreads through me a commotion like its own, Something that fits me for the Poet's task. (VII, 1-56) Wordsworth's account of his mental breakdown in ...
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... verse. Alastor opens with an invocation to the 'Mother of this unfathomable world!' Serenely now And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre. . . I wait thy breath, Great Parent, that my strain May modulate with murmurs of the air. . . .10 ...
... verse. Alastor opens with an invocation to the 'Mother of this unfathomable world!' Serenely now And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre. . . I wait thy breath, Great Parent, that my strain May modulate with murmurs of the air. . . .10 ...
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... verse. During the Middle Ages the mode of self-inquisition and spiritual inventory, of which Augustine's Confessions became a prime exemplar, led to the identification of a standard condition of apathy and spiritual torpor called ...
... verse. During the Middle Ages the mode of self-inquisition and spiritual inventory, of which Augustine's Confessions became a prime exemplar, led to the identification of a standard condition of apathy and spiritual torpor called ...
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