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The romantic will

Title
The romantic will / Michael G. Cooke.
Author
Cooke, Michael G.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976.

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Description
xviii, 279 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • Will in literature
  • Romanticism > England
  • English poetry
  • Romanticism
  • Will in literature
  • England
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 253-270.
Contents
1. The will in English romanticism: Introduction: consciousness and conduct -- The question of the will -- The will in romantic poetry -- 2. The extreme of self and system: The symbiosis of self and system in the neoclassical regimen -- Volatile self and system in the romantic complex -- Fruitful failure and incidental cause: the will in The prelude -- Blake's Jerusalem: a self without selfhood, a system against system -- 3. The will to art: Keats and the aesthetics of redemption -- Excursus: the will to art in romanticism -- Logic, vision, and actuality: the state of art in Blake -- Wordsworth and the stoical resolution of art -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0300019610
  • 9780300019612
LCCN
75043313
OCLC
  • ocm02565890
  • 2565890
  • SCSB-14170275
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library