A Mind that Feeds Upon Infinity: The Deep Self in English Romantic PoetryFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991 - 185 pages 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Translucent | 24 |
The Meditating Self | 44 |
Copyright | |
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action activity aggression Alastor Albion Ancient Mariner audience becomes Blake's body Book of Urizen Byronic hero Cambridge chapter child Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Christabel Coleridge Coleridge's conflict conversation poetry creates dark deep depth desire Don Juan dream dream theater emotion Endymion energy Epipsychidion epitaph eternity Eve of St experience expression feeling Geraldine Hazlitt heroic heroism human identity illusion imagination imagination's impulses inclusive infinite infinity inner invisible poet inwardness isolated Jerusalem John Keats Keats's Lamia living London Lycius lyrical M. H. Abrams manipulation Mariner's meditative mind mixed mobility narrator nature nightmare poetry Odes organic poem Osorio passion physical poem's poet's poetic Porphyro Prelude Princeton profound Prometheus Unbound redeemed Romantic Ruined Cottage selfhood sense sexual Shelley Shelley's social Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence soul speaker spiritual spontaneous overflow suffering suggests superficial surface symbolic things thought tion tranquillity transcendence transformed vision words Wordsworth Wordsworthian