Poetry of the Romantic PeriodRoutledge, 2016年3月31日 - 350 頁 First published in 1980. This title provides a critical and historical account of poetry written between 1780 and 1835. The author has been especially concerned to place the great poems and poets of the age in the context of the conventions and traditions in which they wrote, offering new perspectives on familiar works. Poems still famous are examined often in relation to works of a similar kind fashionable at the time but now neglected, and these unconventional groupings throw fresh light on Romantic poetry as a whole. An appendix is included, designed to be read as a supplement to the main text, serving both as a chronology and as a brief guide to works that do not fall within the scope of the main argument. This title will be of interest to students of literature. |
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... story, all lead us to expect a joke. But although the poem does contain humour, and although Wordsworth himself recorded later that he 'never wrote anything with so much glee', it is really an ambitious experiment in the rendering of ...
... story do not really matter; like the narrator and the local people, we may speculate upon them if we wish. It is her total absorption in misery that is impressed upon us; her mind is so consumed by despair that she is oblivious of the ...
... story-telling—coincidence, surprise, demonstrations of strong feeling—and depend instead upon the accumulation of a few simple but telling observations of daily life. We are shown the attractive side of human character, but we are also ...
... expectation that it would pass on to his only son. The relationship between father and son is analysed for us with an insight that would add meaning to the story of Abraham and Isaac: to Michael's heart This son of his old age was.
... story. III The poem of pathos has its counterpart in the poem of social indignation. When pathos is exploited as an indictment of society, literary quality tends to develop in an inverse proportion to the intensity of the zeal expressed ...
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The ambiguities of guilt | |
The human predicament | |
Meditations of sympathy | |
Testimonies of individual experience | |
Reappraisals of society | |
Unfamiliar ideas | |
Allegorical alternatives | |
Afterword | |
Notes | |
Index | |