The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity in Modern Literature

Abelard accept action Adam Adam Bede Adam's aesthetic affirmation Aganippe alternative Arthur Austen awareness barnyard Becket become Belinda Burden chapter character Christ claim classic existent classic vision classic visionary consequences course create creature Criticism Darcy death dialogue doom Dunciad Eliot Elizabeth Eloisa Eloisa to Abelard ethical existential extremity fact feel final forces Hetty Hightower hobby-horse insists Irwine Jack Jack's Joe Christmas Johnson King's Men language Lena Light in August lines literary living Loamshire man's Manichaean metaphor mock-heroic monistic moral move naïve naïve realism natural human community nature's ness never novel object once order of existence pathetic fallacy Pemberley permits Petrarchan play poem poet poet's Pope Pope's possible Rape reality rejection relation response rhetorical role routine seems seen self-conscious sense sonnet speaker Strephon suffering thematic things tion tragic existent Tragic Vision tragic visionary transcendent Tristram Trollope turn Twitch universal Willie Willie's words Wordsworth