Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin : : Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation / / Thomas McFarland.

Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1981
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 739
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Physical Description:1 online resource (468 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Key to Brief Titles Cited
  • Introduction. Fragmented Modalities and the Criteria of Romanticism
  • Chapter One. The Symbiosis of Coleridge and Wordsworth
  • Chapter Two. Coleridge's Anxiety
  • Chapter Three. The Significant Group: Wordsworth's Fears in Solitude
  • Chapter Four. Problems of Style in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge
  • First Landing Place. Poetry and the Poem: The Structure of Poetic Content
  • Chapter Five. A Complex Dialogue: Coleridge's Doctrine of Polarity and Its European Contexts
  • Chapter Six. The Psychic Economy and Cultural Meaning of Coleridge's Magnum Opus
  • Second Landing Place. The Place Beyond the Heavens: True Being, Transcendence, and the Symbolic Indication of Wholeness
  • Index