Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace StevensGavin Hopps, Jane Stabler Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the newly awakened interest in matters of form and an appreciation of the challenges of postmodern theory. |
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... Harold Bloom . Jane Stabler is Reader in Romanticism at the School of English , University of St Andrews . Her book Byron , Poetics and History was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. She is currently working on a study of ...
... Harold Bloom . Jane Stabler is Reader in Romanticism at the School of English , University of St Andrews . Her book Byron , Poetics and History was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. She is currently working on a study of ...
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... Harold's Pilgrimage which , without denying the secular impulses of the poem , reconsiders its moments of ' questing after religious faith ' , its ' profound sense of sinfulness ' and its sporadic moments where faith is affirmed ( p ...
... Harold's Pilgrimage which , without denying the secular impulses of the poem , reconsiders its moments of ' questing after religious faith ' , its ' profound sense of sinfulness ' and its sporadic moments where faith is affirmed ( p ...
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... Harold's Pilgrimage , The Giaour and Manfred ) . Burns sees Byron's addiction to the pre - Reformation world as informed by a sense of cheeky comedy but also as a way of more seriously seeking communion between past and present , both ...
... Harold's Pilgrimage , The Giaour and Manfred ) . Burns sees Byron's addiction to the pre - Reformation world as informed by a sense of cheeky comedy but also as a way of more seriously seeking communion between past and present , both ...
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... Harold Bloom as the wellspring of Romanticism was ' strengthened , or stimulated , or drawn into animated imaginative existence ' by the sense of threat or danger posed by Catholicism ( p . 80 ) . Webb's chapter intersects with Jane ...
... Harold Bloom as the wellspring of Romanticism was ' strengthened , or stimulated , or drawn into animated imaginative existence ' by the sense of threat or danger posed by Catholicism ( p . 80 ) . Webb's chapter intersects with Jane ...
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... Harold Bloom's classification of confident Promethean energies in Romantic poets , Shears examines what he takes to be a twofold difficulty facing those poets in their most ambitious visionary mode : firstly , the old problem Milton ...
... Harold Bloom's classification of confident Promethean energies in Romantic poets , Shears examines what he takes to be a twofold difficulty facing those poets in their most ambitious visionary mode : firstly , the old problem Milton ...
Contents
Approaching the Unapproached Light Milton and the Romantic Visionary | 25 |
Cowper Prospects Self Nature Society | 41 |
Je sais bien mais quand même Wordsworths Faithful Scepticism | 57 |
Catholic Contagion Southey Coleridge and English Romantic Anxieties | 75 |
Sacrifice and Offering Thou Didst Not Desire Byron and Atonement | 93 |
I was Bred a Moderate Presbyterian Byron Thomas Chalmers and the Scottish Religious Heritage | 107 |
Byrons Confessional Pilgrimage | 121 |
Words and the Word The Diction of Don Juan | 137 |
Byrons Monky Business Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity | 167 |
A Fine Excess Hopkins Keats and the Gratuity of Grace | 181 |
Until Death Tramples It to Fragments Percy Bysshe Shelley after Postmodern Theology | 191 |
Sacred Art and Profane Poets | 207 |
The Death of Satan Stevenss Esthetique du Mal Evil and the Romantic Imagination | 223 |
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Why Should I Speak? Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byrons Cain | 155 |
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