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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... possible by the death of God , the end of metaphysics and deconstruction , what might the features of such a paradoxical religion be ? We may trace its lineaments with the help of that quintessentially postmodern figure - the angel . II ...
... possible by the death of God , the end of metaphysics and deconstruction , what might the features of such a paradoxical religion be ? We may trace its lineaments with the help of that quintessentially postmodern figure - the angel . II ...
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... possible to think difference differently . For , according to this reading , difference and unity are not at all incompatible . On the contrary , they coincide peaceably within the divine itself . This is because , from a Trinitarian ...
... possible to think difference differently . For , according to this reading , difference and unity are not at all incompatible . On the contrary , they coincide peaceably within the divine itself . This is because , from a Trinitarian ...
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... possible to treat with equal seriousness Romantic dejection and Romantic hope . One of the crucial criticisms levelled against Abrams's religious reading of Romantic poetry by McGann and others is that it leaves out of account and ...
... possible to treat with equal seriousness Romantic dejection and Romantic hope . One of the crucial criticisms levelled against Abrams's religious reading of Romantic poetry by McGann and others is that it leaves out of account and ...
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... possible to argue that the conventional opposition between the literal and the metaphorical does not stand up , since all our knowledge of ' external things ' is in a sense metaphorical , does this not at the same time more decisively ...
... possible to argue that the conventional opposition between the literal and the metaphorical does not stand up , since all our knowledge of ' external things ' is in a sense metaphorical , does this not at the same time more decisively ...
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... possible antidote to the ethos of tragic sacrifice and philosophical closure . Edward Burns reads Byron's comic use of the ghostly monk at the end of Don Juan in the context of the sequence of holy figures who have haunted his juvenilia ...
... possible antidote to the ethos of tragic sacrifice and philosophical closure . Edward Burns reads Byron's comic use of the ghostly monk at the end of Don Juan in the context of the sequence of holy figures who have haunted his juvenilia ...
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?