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The romantic assertion; a study in the language of nineteenth century poetry.

Title
The romantic assertion; a study in the language of nineteenth century poetry.
Author
Foakes, R. A.
Publication
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1958.

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Description
186 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Romanticism > England
  • Figures of speech
  • Romanticism > Great Britain
  • English poetry
  • Romanticism
  • Bildersprache
  • Literatur
  • Romantik
  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
The commitment to metaphor: modern criticism and romantic poetry -- Poetic imagery -- Order out of chaos: the task of the romantic poet -- The unfinished journey: Wordsworth's The prelude -- The vision of love: Keats's The eve of St. Agnes and Shelley's Adonais -- The rhetoric of faith: Tennyson's In memoriam and Browning's Men and women -- The vanity of rhetoric: Matthew Arnold's poetry and James Thomson's The city of dreadful night.
LCCN
58003717
OCLC
  • ocm05930395
  • 5930395
  • SCSB-156273
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library