The Romantic Imagination

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THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION
by C. M. Bowra
A noted English scholar here presents an appreciative and stimulating revaluation of the importance of the imagination to the great English Romantic poets. Mr. Bowra strikes a refreshing balance between the old, uncritical attitude toward Romantic poetry and Modern 'realistic' attempts to discredit it. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, as well as Byron, Poe, and the Pre-Raphaelites, serve as examples in this analysis of the imagination as a prime motive in Romantic creative activity.
'His great erudition is handled lightly. His critical judgments, though given with quiet authority, ^re distinguished by 'unfailing lucidity and a keen sense of when just enough has been said.'
—George F. Whicher, New York Herald Tribune Book Review
'How rare and delightful it is to find a critic of Dr. Bowra's awareness, broad sympathy and erudition, so completely prepared to put his talents to expository purposes, without axes to grind or... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION
by C. M. Bowra
A noted English scholar here presents an appreciative and stimulating revaluation of the importance of the imagination to the great English Romantic poets. Mr. Bowra strikes a refreshing balance between the old, uncritical attitude toward Romantic poetry and Modern 'realistic' attempts to discredit it. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, as well as Byron, Poe, and the Pre-Raphaelites, serve as examples in this analysis of the imagination as a prime motive in Romantic creative activity.
'His great erudition is handled lightly. His critical judgments, though given with quiet authority, ^re distinguished by 'unfailing lucidity and a keen sense of when just enough has been said.'
—George F. Whicher, New York Herald Tribune Book Review
'How rare and delightful it is to find a critic of Dr. Bowra's awareness, broad sympathy and erudition, so completely prepared to put his talents to expository purposes, without axes to grind or prejudices to air.' —Times Literary Supplement
Sir Maurice Bowra, who has been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, since 1938, was also Professor of Poetry and has served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. He has written numerous books, including Ancient Greek Literature, Problems in Greek Poetry, Sophoclean Tragedy, Tradition and Design in the Iliad, and is co-editor of The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation.
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