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Title: The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by Meyer Howard Abrams ISBN: 0-19-501471-5 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Summary: The Birth of the Visionary Poet
Comment: Our way of looking at art in the year 2000 is steeped in the Romantic mentality. The idea of the true poet as lone inspired genius, starving in a garret, creating to express his (and it generally was 'his' in those days) inner turmoil or vision is so ingrained that there almost seems no other possible standard. Yet as M.H. Abrahms points out in this scholarly, yet readable work on Romantic poetry and theory, this view of art and the artist is only as old as the age of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Up until 200 odd years ago, the artist's job had been to act as a mirror, reflecting the world as accurately as possible. The Romantics sought to reverse over 2000 years of previous art criticism by pushing the artist to the forefront and insisting that he be seen as a lamp, illuminating the world with his imagination and vision. Abrahms thoroughly examines the development of Romantic philosophy through the writings of the major English poets and thinkers of the age, drawing in discussions of continental Romanticism as well. Romantic views on Nature, God, Poets and Poetry, Truth, Vision and of course the Imagination are all thoroughly researched and meticulously compiled, making this one of the most comprehensive single volume books on the subject.
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Title: Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by Meyer Howard Abrams ISBN: 0393006093 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1973 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Romanticism: Points of View by Robert F. Gleckner, Gerald Enscoe ISBN: 0814315437 Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1975 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism by M.H. Abrams ISBN: 0195019466 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1975 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism by Harold Bloom, William Golding ISBN: 0393099547 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1970 List Price(USD): $20.60 |
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Title: Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Edition) by William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Stephen Charles Gill ISBN: 039309071X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1980 List Price(USD): $20.60 |
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