Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society, and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas HardyScolar Press, 1995 - 273 pages These 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 37
... stand alone and expect the storm that shall displace me.10 In ' The Castaway ' the ' solitary pillar ' miraculously still stands , and with it , writ large , the other prominent features of this impressive short statement - lucid ...
... stand alone and expect the storm that shall displace me.10 In ' The Castaway ' the ' solitary pillar ' miraculously still stands , and with it , writ large , the other prominent features of this impressive short statement - lucid ...
Page 84
... stands in striking relief to the efforts of those who have sought to identify the synthesizing capability of society and culture . Pope's celebration of the civilizing potential of his Age in Windsor - Forest is an outstanding example ...
... stands in striking relief to the efforts of those who have sought to identify the synthesizing capability of society and culture . Pope's celebration of the civilizing potential of his Age in Windsor - Forest is an outstanding example ...
Page 150
... stands between ' the city and the shore ' , separating but also linking the human and non - human worlds ; ' paved with the image of the sky ' , it connects earth with heaven ( ll . 66-67 ) . Mountains tower around the sun ; Earth and ...
... stands between ' the city and the shore ' , separating but also linking the human and non - human worlds ; ' paved with the image of the sky ' , it connects earth with heaven ( ll . 66-67 ) . Mountains tower around the sun ; Earth and ...
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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