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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Romantic poets"”.
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Poetic Theology: Dante And The British Romantic Poets
… history of poetic theology that discovers the Romantic revival of the Renaissance ideal of the poet-theologian. The Italian humanist conception of the poeta theologus, which retroactively named a tradition originating with Dante, sought to resolve the ongoing conflict between theology and …
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T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Poets: A Study of the Similar Poetic Themes and Methods Used by Eliot and Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, and Shelley
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Reweaving the Rainbow: Science in Romantic Poetry
Contrary to popular belief, the Romantic poets were not anti-scientific thinkers. Their poems, both major and minor, are heavily infused with the scientific knowledge of the period, a time marked by monumental advances in British chemistry and geology. Though they all asserted at times that there …
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The Anguish of Ahasverus: The Legend of the Wandering Jew in English Romantic Literature
… Wandering Jew on specific works of three English Romantic poets, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, and of the use made by these poets of the Legend. Certain critics, concerned with the whole field of the Legend, have discussed the Legend as legend or as folklore, as for example, Anderson, and …
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Sir William Jones and Representations of Hinduism in British Poetry, 1784-1812
… examines the representations of Hinduism in Romantic poetry from 1784 to 1812, using as case studies the poetry of Sir William Jones, William Blake, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The study argues that Jones’ sympathetic and syncretic representations of Hinduism in his nine ‘Hymns’ …
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A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Periods of Division
… for Dryden, for Pope, for Wordsworth, for most Romantic poets, for Browning, and for Tennyson, to mention only the major poets. Also the academic practice of dividing Shakespeare’s dramatic works into several periods is a helpful device in the study of his development both as an artist and a …
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The literary reputation of Samuel Daniel
… totally neglected in the eighteenth. Certain Romantic poets expressed more admiration for Daniel than had been expressed for two centuries. His reputation maintained a fairly steady, though unexciting, level throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After 1920 Daniel gradually …
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Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet
<p>The English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century wrote numerous poems from genres and styles all across the poetic spectrum. From the epics of ancient origin concerning kings and fanciful settings to the political odes on fallen leaders and even the anthropological histories of what it …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
… establish the literary forebears of the trench poets. Johnston believes that the roots of war poetry are in the Germanic and Greek epics; Bergonzi that they are in the anti-heroic poetry of the Elizabethans; and Silkin, in the liberal, humanitarian poetry of the Romantics. Their approaches are …
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Spontaneous Minds and Electric Romanticism: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Dylan, Joplin
<p>This dissertation postulates a sub-category of Romanticism: electric Romanticism. As opposed to its “acoustic” forebear, electric Romanticism exists in an electric age, beginning after Henry David Thoreau’s rumination on the telegraph wire as an electric rendering of the æolian harp image. …
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The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity
… Arabic, and the productive engagement of Arab poets with Western literatures. In 1957, Syrian poet Fu’ād Rifqa embarks upon a five-decade poetic project of intentional intertextuality that acknowledges these sometimes collaborative, sometimes competing narratives. Rifqa’s poetry creates a …
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
… Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and others, and via the Romantic poets. Its presence was marked by motifs, but just as importantly by mood: terror, the Burkeian sublime, which becomes associated with Romantic transcendence; and horror, Gothic’s darker side, whose images of transgression, ambivalence and …
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Sound, Gender, Individual Will, and the Body in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… era. Drawing inspiration from Keats and the Romantic poets, who use the nightingale to symbolize the artistic ideal, Victorian prima donnas end up becoming this nightingale. Jenny Lind’s reputation (and wild success) as the “Swedish Nightingale” is the most direct application of this …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
… ghost in Byron’s ‘The Siege of Corinth’, Romantic poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by supernatural beings coming into contact and often conversing with humans. In doing so, earthly and unearthly interlocutors are faced with the pressing problem of how to communicate across the …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
… the images and sentiments of traditional poets. Figures of speech, or entire poems, may refer directly to one or more specific models.</p> <p>America just after the turn of the century offered no notably original poets. Most relied heavily on the verbal icons of the Symbolists, or the …