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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... poet . He is author of the Byron entry in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , and of the entries on J.C. Hobhouse and E.J. Trelawny for the new Dictionary of National Biography . He has just published his edition of ...
... poet . He is author of the Byron entry in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , and of the entries on J.C. Hobhouse and E.J. Trelawny for the new Dictionary of National Biography . He has just published his edition of ...
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... poet who doubts ' if doubt itself be doubting ' , and who asserts that ' He who doubts all things , nothing can deny ' ( Don Juan , XV , 88 ) . It is partly on account of the poet's extraordinary fidelity to ' the puzzle and mystery of ...
... poet who doubts ' if doubt itself be doubting ' , and who asserts that ' He who doubts all things , nothing can deny ' ( Don Juan , XV , 88 ) . It is partly on account of the poet's extraordinary fidelity to ' the puzzle and mystery of ...
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... poet like Byron . However , if the atheistic counter- reaction of more recent criticism provided a necessary corrective to the previously dominant religious reading - pointing up its elision of indeterminacy , difference , despair and ...
... poet like Byron . However , if the atheistic counter- reaction of more recent criticism provided a necessary corrective to the previously dominant religious reading - pointing up its elision of indeterminacy , difference , despair and ...
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... poetic faith ' , is a form of ' as if ' ; and the whole of The Prelude - as the poet insistently reminds us - is likewise predicated upon an ' if ' ( ' All gratulant if rightly understood ' ) . The poetry of Keats , Byron and Shelley is ...
... poetic faith ' , is a form of ' as if ' ; and the whole of The Prelude - as the poet insistently reminds us - is likewise predicated upon an ' if ' ( ' All gratulant if rightly understood ' ) . The poetry of Keats , Byron and Shelley is ...
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... poet on an intensely private level but also articulating rules for the benevolent governance of a whole society . Carrying religious sensibility onto sociological ground , Newey argues that Cowper is an exemplar of ' a rising liberal ...
... poet on an intensely private level but also articulating rules for the benevolent governance of a whole society . Carrying religious sensibility onto sociological ground , Newey argues that Cowper is an exemplar of ' a rising liberal ...
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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Page 12 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?