The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic PoetryThis is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive interpretations of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Beddoes, Clare, and Darley develop the themes of Romantic myth-making and the dialectical relationship between nature and imagination. For this new edition, Harold Bloom has added an introductory essay on the historical backgrounds of English Romantic poetry and an epilogue relating his book to literary trends. |
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... of Innocence 58 64 THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL 64 71 71 80 80 97 MILTON 9 Blake's Apocalypse JERUSALEM 97 108 108 II WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1 The Great Marriage 124 THE RECLUSE NUTTING 2 Myth of Memory TINTERN ABBEY THE ix.
... of Innocence 58 64 THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL 64 71 71 80 80 97 MILTON 9 Blake's Apocalypse JERUSALEM 97 108 108 II WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1 The Great Marriage 124 THE RECLUSE NUTTING 2 Myth of Memory TINTERN ABBEY THE ix.
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Contents
Prologue | 1 |
The Heritage of Sensibility 7748 | 7 |
The Individual Vision | 20 |
The Contraries | 33 |
Negations | 49 |
Bible of Energy | 64 |
Bible of Hell | 71 |
States of Being | 80 |
GEORGE GORDON LORD BYRON | 238 |
The Byronic Ethos | 272 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY | 282 |
The Hidden Power | 290 |
Titan on the Rock | 306 |
Dialectics of Vision | 323 |
Darkening of the Quest | 335 |
Transmemberment of Song | 350 |
The Recovery of Innocence | 97 |
Blakes Apocalypse | 108 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH | 124 |
Myth of Memory | 131 |
Spots of Time | 164 |
Natural Man | 178 |
The Myth Denied | 184 |
The Frozen Spirit | 193 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE | 199 |
Natural Magic | 206 |
Wisdom and Dejection | 220 |
JOHN KEATS | 363 |
Hymns of Eros | 378 |
Temples of the Sun | 390 |
Naturalistic Humanism | 407 |
Tragic Humanism | 421 |
BEDDOES CLARE DARLEY AND OTHERS | 438 |
John Clare | 444 |
George Darley and Others | 456 |
Chronological Table | 467 |
Notes | 471 |
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