The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-romantic WritingManchester University Press, 2000 - 312 pages Inspiration is a basic concept of western poetics, and deserves reassessment with all the tools of modern literary theory. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
the space of composition | 15 |
archaic Greece and Platos Ion I | 40 |
14 | 42 |
Enthusiasm and enlightenment | 87 |
Power in Wordsworths The Prelude | 92 |
Hölderlin and Schelling | 115 |
Shelleys A Defence of Poetry | 143 |
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