Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society, and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas HardyThese essays focus primarily on the theme of selfhood and subjective experience in the poetry of the British Romantic period, and in the later poetry and novels that were its legacy. There are chapters on Gray, Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hardy and George Eliot - writers who, though often having a strong interest in public affairs, all turned inwards to make trial of imagination and the individual life as sources of order and value against a background of cultural unsettlement. The book moves from the emergence of post-Enlightenment psychological man to the proto-modernist preoccupation with the self as construct in Byron and Hardy. |
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Page 124
... soul ' : ' Thine own soul still is true to thee , / But changed to a foul fiend through misery ' ( ll . 29-30 ) . In a well - known passage from the prose fragment ' On Love ' , written in 1818 , the ' prototype ' , or beloved , that ...
... soul ' : ' Thine own soul still is true to thee , / But changed to a foul fiend through misery ' ( ll . 29-30 ) . In a well - known passage from the prose fragment ' On Love ' , written in 1818 , the ' prototype ' , or beloved , that ...
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... Soul , heart , mind , passions , feelings , strong or weak , All that I would have sought , and all I seek , Bear , know , feel , and yet breathe into one word , And that one word were Lightning , I would speak ; But as it is , I live ...
... Soul , heart , mind , passions , feelings , strong or weak , All that I would have sought , and all I seek , Bear , know , feel , and yet breathe into one word , And that one word were Lightning , I would speak ; But as it is , I live ...
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... soul residing there , it seemed . Surely it was the sound of bells , the voice of the city , faint and musical , calling to him , ' We are happy here ! ' ( I. 3 ) This , like much else in the account of Jude's childhood , registers a ...
... soul residing there , it seemed . Surely it was the sound of bells , the voice of the city , faint and musical , calling to him , ' We are happy here ! ' ( I. 3 ) This , like much else in the account of Jude's childhood , registers a ...
Contents
William Cowper and the Condition of England | 19 |
Cowpers The Castaway | 33 |
Wordsworth Bunyan and the Puritan Mind | 69 |
Copyright | |
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