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Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism
Romanticism and Consciousness Essays in Criticism Author:Harold Bloom (Editor) Romanticism and Consciousness is a comprehensive collection of essays on Romanticism -- its intellectual and political backgrounds, its place in literary history, its continued relevance to the present age, its relation to psychoanalysis and other modern trends of thought -- and on the major English Romantic poets. — The topics covered include th... more »e relations between nature and consciousness, nature and revolution, and nature and literary form; the principal poets studied are Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Some of the essay have been especially revised by their distinguished authors for this volume; some others appear here for the first time. The scholars and critics represented are Samuel H. Monk, Owen Barfield, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. H. Van den Berg, Paul de Man, W. K. Wimsatt Jr., M. H. Abrams, Northrop Frye, Alfred Cobban, Walter Jackson Bate, Josephine Miles, John Hollander, Martin Price, Frederick A. Pottle, Humphry House, Alvin B. Kernan, and Harold Bloom.
Part 1. Nature and consciousness --
The internalization of quest-romance / Harold Bloom --
The sublime : Burke's Enquiry / Samuel H. Monk --
Symptoms of iconoclasm / Owen Barfield --
Romanticism and "anti-self-consciousness" / Geoffrey H. Hartman --
The subject and his landscape / J.H. Van den Berg --
Intentional structure of the romantic image / Paul de Man --
The structure of romantic nature imagery / W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. --
Part 2. Nature and revolution --
English romanticism : the spirit of the age / M.H. Abrams --
The road of excess / Northrop Frye --
The revolt against the eighteenth century / Alfred Cobban --
Part 3. Nature and literary form --
The English romantic compromise / Walter Jackson Bate --
The romantic mode / Josephine Miles --
Romantic verse form and the metrical contract / John Hollander --
Structure and style in the greater romantic lyric / M.H. Abrams --
Part 4. The major poets --
William Blake : The keys to the gates / Northrop Frye --
The standard of energy / Martin Price --
William Wordsworth : The eye and the object in the poetry of Wordsworth / Frederick A. Pottle --
The romance of nature and the negative way / Geoffrey H. Hartman --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Kubla Khan, Christabel and dejection / Humphrey House --
John Keats : Negative capability / Walter Jackson Bate --
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Don Juan : the perspective of satire / Alvin B. Kennan --
Percy Bysshe Shelley : The unpastured sea : an introduction to Shelley / Harold Bloom« less