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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... Don Juan 137 Richard Cronin 9 ' Why Should I Speak ? ' : Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byron's Cain 155 Tony Howe 10 Byron's Monk - y Business : Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity Edward Burns 167 11 ' A Fine Excess ...
... Don Juan 137 Richard Cronin 9 ' Why Should I Speak ? ' : Scepticism and the Voice of Poetry in Byron's Cain 155 Tony Howe 10 Byron's Monk - y Business : Ghostly Closure and Comic Continuity Edward Burns 167 11 ' A Fine Excess ...
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... Don Juan , IX , 17 ) I For several decades now , the dominant presuppositions of literary criticism have been secular . This does not mean that something extrinsic that shackled our practice has been lifted so that it has become neutral ...
... Don Juan , IX , 17 ) I For several decades now , the dominant presuppositions of literary criticism have been secular . This does not mean that something extrinsic that shackled our practice has been lifted so that it has become neutral ...
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... ( Don Juan , XV , 88 ) . It is partly on account of the poet's extraordinary fidelity to ' the puzzle and mystery of where the world of his own making and the larger world not of his own making come from ' , 54 and partly in an effort to ...
... ( Don Juan , XV , 88 ) . It is partly on account of the poet's extraordinary fidelity to ' the puzzle and mystery of where the world of his own making and the larger world not of his own making come from ' , 54 and partly in an effort to ...
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... Don Juan and the issues underlying it . Focusing on Byron's public debate with the Lake School about the authority of the poet , Cronin contrasts the ' rigmarole ' of Don Juan with Coleridge's claims that the forging of poetic symbols ...
... Don Juan and the issues underlying it . Focusing on Byron's public debate with the Lake School about the authority of the poet , Cronin contrasts the ' rigmarole ' of Don Juan with Coleridge's claims that the forging of poetic symbols ...
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... Don Juan ( and what links this chapter with Richard Cronin's ) is Howe's conviction that , in both works , Byron is investigating the moral nature of poetic language . Unlike Cronin , Howe discovers a unique role for the poet and a hope ...
... Don Juan ( and what links this chapter with Richard Cronin's ) is Howe's conviction that , in both works , Byron is investigating the moral nature of poetic language . Unlike Cronin , Howe discovers a unique role for the poet and a hope ...
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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