Eternity In British Romantic Poetry

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800855625

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Eternity in British Romantic Poetry by Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry explores the representation of the relationship between eternity and the mortal world in the poetry of the period. It offers an original approach to Romanticism that demonstrates, against the grain, the dominant intellectual preoccupation of the era: the relationship between the mortal and the eternal. The project's scope is two-fold: firstly, it analyses the prevalence and range of images of eternity (from apocalypse and afterlife to transcendence) in Romantic poetry; secondly, it opens up a new and more nuanced focus on how Romantic poets imagined and interacted with the idea of eternity. Every poet featured in the book seeks and finds their uniqueness in their apprehension of eternity. From Blake’s assertion of the Eternal Now to Keats’s defiance of eternity, Wordsworth’s ‘two consciousnesses’ versus Coleridge’s capacious poetry, Byron’s swithering between versions of eternity compared to Shelleyan yearning, and Hemans’s superlative account of everlasting female suffering, each poet finds new versions of eternity to explore or reject. This monograph sets out a paradigm-shifting approach to the aesthetic and philosophical power of eternity in Romantic poetry.

Author : Morton D. Paley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584688

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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry by Morton D. Paley Pdf

The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.

Author : Sophie Laniel-Musitelli,Céline Sabiron
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800640740

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Romanticism and Time by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli,Céline Sabiron Pdf

‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. This original edited volume takes William Blake’s aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the question of time from a literary perspective, applying a diverse range of critical approaches to Romantic authors from William Blake and Percy Shelley to John Clare and Samuel Rodgers. Close readings uncover fresh insights into these authors and their works, including Frankenstein, the most familiar of Romantic texts. Revising current thinking about periodisation, the authors explore how the Romantic poetics of time bears witness to the ruptures and dislocations at work within chronological time. They consider an array of topics, such as ecological time, futurity, operatic time, or the a-temporality of Venice. As well as surveying the Romantic canon’s evolution over time, these essays approach it as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. Romantic authors are compared with American or European counterparts including Beethoven, Irving, Nietzsche and Beckett. Romanticism and Time will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Romantic Studies. It will be of further interest to philosophers and historians working on the connections between philosophy, history and literature during the nineteenth century.

Author : Jean Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015022060027

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A Mind that Feeds Upon Infinity by Jean Hall Pdf

This book's focus is on the socialization of the imagination, and Romantic poetry is viewed as simultaneously a poetry of growth and of defense. This theme is followed in chapters on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, and Shelley, in an attempt to discover how each poet copes with the problem.

Author : Sylvia Hunt
Publisher : Universitas Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781988963211

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These Immortal Creations by Sylvia Hunt Pdf

This is the most diverse anthology of British Romantic poetry: out of twenty-seven authors, fifteen are male and twelve female. The reader will be able to see how the female poets of the Romantic Movement found self-empowerment in the construction, articulation and publication of a feminized poetic identity. This accessible anthology provides all the necessary tools a newcomer to the Romantic movement needs: an excellent introduction, a chronology of the time, all the great poems arranged in chronological order.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0517161095

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Wordsworth by William Wordsworth Pdf

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was the quintessential Romantic, an imaginative and graceful poet. He was one of the greatest poets of all time, becoming Poet Laureate and making the English Lake District a mecca for poetry lovers. This edition celebrates some of Wordsworth's greatest poetry and is illustrated with some of the world's most beautiful works of art, many painted by artists inspired by his evocative descriptions of the lakes.

Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769068

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The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber Pdf

An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

Author : Omar F. Miranda,Kate Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009206518

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Percy Shelley for Our Times by Omar F. Miranda,Kate Singer Pdf

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings continue to resonate in remarkable ways. Shelley addressed climate change, women's liberation, nonbinary gender, and political protest, while speaking to Indigenous, queer/trans, disabled, displaced, and working-class communities. He still inspires artists and social justice movements around the world today. Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic powers of prophetic art. Not historicist, presentist, or transhistorical, Shelley 'for our times' conceives worlds outside himself, his poetry, and his era, envisioning how audiences connect and collaborate across space and time. This collection revitalizes a writer once considered an adolescent of idealist protest, showing how his interwoven poetics of relationality continually revisits the meaning of community and the contemporary. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Shiv K. Kumar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 8126901187

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British Romantic PoetsCritical Assessments by Shiv K. Kumar Pdf

British Romantic Poets Critical Assessments Is A Selection Of Some Of Best Critical Writings Available On The British Romantic Period Of English Literary History. It Includes Such Eminent Critics As Cleanth Brooks, Douglas Bush, L.D. Salinger, C.M. Bowra And Humphry House. Two Essays, Each By Morse Peckham And Shiv K. Kumar, Have Been Written Specially For This Book.It Is Hoped That This Book Will Be Of Great Interest To All Students Of Advanced English Literature.

Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655

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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth Pdf

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719017068

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American and British Poetry by Harriet Semmes Alexander Pdf

Author : Maureen N. McLane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827904

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by Maureen N. McLane Pdf

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

Author : Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786075277

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The Heritage of Sufism by Leonard Lewisohn Pdf

This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India

Author : Sophie Laniel-Musitelli,Céline Sabiron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800640722

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Romanticism and Time by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli,Céline Sabiron Pdf

'Eternity is in love with the productions of time'. This original edited volume takes William Blake's aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own sense of time. It considers Romantic poetry as embedded in and reflecting on the march of time, regarding it not merely as a reaction to the course of events between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, but also as a form of creative engagement with history in the making. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the question of time from a literary perspective, applying a diverse range of critical approaches to Romantic authors from William Blake and Percy Shelley to John Clare and Samuel Rodgers. Close readings uncover fresh insights into these authors and their works, including Frankenstein, the most familiar of Romantic texts. Revising current thinking about periodisation, the authors explore how the Romantic poetics of time bears witness to the ruptures and dislocations at work within chronological time. They consider an array of topics, such as ecological time, futurity, operatic time, or the a-temporality of Venice. As well as surveying the Romantic canon's evolution over time, these essays approach it as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders. Romantic authors are compared with American or European counterparts including Beethoven, Irving, Nietzsche and Beckett. Romanticism and Time will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Romantic Studies. It will be of further interest to philosophers and historians working on the connections between philosophy, history and literature during the nineteenth century.

Author : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom,Henry W,Albert A Berg
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438114958

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English Romantic Poetry by Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom,Henry W,Albert A Berg Pdf

Examines the Romantic period in poetry that includes the works of Byron, Shelley, Keats and others.