Eternity In British Romantic Poetry

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800855621
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternity in British Romantic Poetry written by Madeleine Callaghan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sophie Laniel-Musitelli
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800640749
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Time written by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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 : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905654
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry written by Jonathan Wordsworth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Morton D. Paley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584681
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry written by Morton D. Paley and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517161098
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jean Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind that Feeds Upon Infinity written by Jean Hall and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780995029194
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Immortal Creations written by Sylvia Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present anthology is prepared for an undergraduate course of British Romantic poetry or Romantic literature. Poems area arranged in chronological order, allowing readers to follow the development of poetic forms.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691086620
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Romanticism written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series. "Exhilaratingly thought-provoking".--"Times London".

Author : John Keats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endymion, a Poetic Romance written by John Keats and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Keats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322705989
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Bright Star written by John Keats and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: