British Romantic Poets: Critical Assesments (Hardcover)  | Released: 2007

British Romantic Poets — Critical Assessments is a selection of some of best critical writings available on the British Romantic period of English literary history. It includes such eminent critics as Cleanth Brooks, Douglas Bush, L.D. Salinger, C.M. Bowra and Humphry House. Two essays, each by Morse Peckham and Shiv K. Kumar, have been written specially for this book. It is hoped that this book will be of great interest to all students of advanced English Literature.Table of Contents: PART ONE : ROMANTICISM—1. Toward A Theory of Romanticism-Morse Peckham; 2. The Commitment to Metaphor: Modern Criticism and Romantic Poetry-R. A. Foakes—PART TWO : WORDSWORTH—3. Wordsworth: A Minority Report-Douglas Bush; 4. The Themes of Immortality and Natural Piety in Wordsworth's Immortality Ode-Thomas M. Raysor; 5. A Prelude to The Prelude-Edwin Morgan; 6. The Tragic Flaw in Wordsworth's Philosophy-Newton P. Stallknecht—PART THREE : COLERIDGE—7. Coleridge: Poet and Philosopher-L. G. Salingar; 8. Symbolism in Coleridge-Elmer Edgar Stoll; 9. "Kubla Khan", Christabel, and "Dejection" -Humphry House—PART FOUR : BYRON—10. The Consistency in Byron's Social Doctrine-Wilfred S. Dowden; 11. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Cantos HI and IV-Andrew Rutherford; 12. Don Juan-CM. Bowra—PART FIVE : SHELLEY—13. The Imaginal Design of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"-Richard Harter Fogle; 14. The Heart of the Cosmos: Prometheus Unbound-Carlos Baker; 15. The Sources, Symbolism, and Unity of Shelley's "Skylark"-Stewart C. Wilcox—PART SIX : KEATS—16. The Mind of Keats in His Art-Bernard Blackstone; 17. The Allegory of Endymion-Stuart M. Sperry, Jr.; 18. Keats's Sylvan Historian: History Without Footnotes-Cleanth Brooks; 19. The Meaning of Hyperion: A Reassessment-Shiv K. Kumar