English Romantic Poets
Modern Essays in Criticism
2nd Edition
Published on 11. September 1975
494 pages
978-0-19-536543-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Romantic Period
- On the Discrimination of Romanticisms
- The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery
- The Correspondent Breeze: A Romantic Metaphor
- Blake
- Blake's Treatment of the Archetype
- Blake: The Historical Approach
- Point of View and Context in Blake's Songs
- Blake's Apocalypse: "Jerusalem''
- Wordsworth
- On Wordsworth and the Locke Tradition
- Nature and the Humanization of the Self in Wordsworth
- The 'Lyrical Ballads'
- The Immortality Ode
- Wordsworth's 'Borderers'
- Coleridge
- Coleridge's Conversation Poems
- Coleridge's Divine Comedy
- The Ancient Mariner
- To William Wordsworth": Coleridge and the Art of Analogy
- Byron
- Byron
- Byron and Sincerity
- Don Juan
- 'Don Juan': The English Cantos
- Shelley
- Shelley, Dryden, and Mr.Eliot
- Shelley
- The Case of Shelley
- 'Prometheus Unbound': The Premises and the Mythic Mode
- Keats
- Keats's Style: Evolution toward Qualities of Permanent Value
- Keats's Sylvan Historian
- A Note on 'Ode to a Nightingale
- A Note on "To Autumn
- The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in 'The Eve of St. Agnes'
- Tragic Irony in "The Fall of Hyperion'
