| Description |
xviii, 279 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 253-270. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. The will in English romanticism: Introduction: consciousness and conduct -- The question of the will -- The will in romantic poetry -- 2. The extreme of self and system: The symbiosis of self and system in the neoclassical regimen -- Volatile self and system in the romantic complex -- Fruitful failure and incidental cause: the will in The prelude -- Blake's Jerusalem: a self without selfhood, a system against system -- 3. The will to art: Keats and the aesthetics of redemption -- Excursus: the will to art in romanticism -- Logic, vision, and actuality: the state of art in Blake -- Wordsworth and the stoical resolution of art -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Will in literature.
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| ISBN |
0300019610: $15.00 |
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