Central Self: Study in Romantic and Victorian Imagination - Couverture rigide

Ball, Patricia M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0485111020 ISBN 13 : 9780485111026

Editeur : The Athlone Press, 1968

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this closely argued book Dr Ball is concerned to analyse the imaginative process of self-understanding which emerged as a characteristic feature of English Romantic poetry and, acquiring fresh creative force in the Victorian period, has been transmitted to our own times as a determining principle of the contemporary imagination. Dr Ball relates her discussion to the distinction between the poet speaking directly in his own voice and the impulse to dramatised utterance the two modes of poetic expression conveniently summed up in Keats s contrasting terms 'egotistical sublime' and 'chameleon'. She shows how these 'polar' tendencies co-exist fruitfully in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats and from this standpoint supplies a coherent appreciation of the little-regarded plays written by these poets. Turning to Victorian critics and poets Dr Ball considers how the Romantic inheritance fared at their hands. She sees in the poets, notably Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, and Hopkins, a vital link by which the Romantic commitment to the agency of self-consciousness has been carried forward to the twentieth century and concludes with a brief sketch of the creative role of self-exploration in T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats.

Biographie de l'auteur

Patricia M. Ball was a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Athlone Press
• Date d'édition: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0485111020
• ISBN 13: 9780485111026
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible