The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical TraditionOxford University Press, 1953 - 406 pages Traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early nineteenth century. |
Contents
ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES | 3 |
IMITATION AND THE MIRROR | 30 |
ROMANTIC ANALOGUES OF ART AND MIND | 47 |
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aesthetic analogy Aristotle artist attributes beauty Biographia Biographia Literaria century character Coleridge Coleridge's composition concept creation creative Critical Essays critical theory Defence of Poetry discourse distinction doctrine earlier eighteenth eighteenth-century elements emotion English epic expression external fact faculty fancy feeling Friedrich Schlegel genius German Goethe Hazlitt human Hurd I. A. Richards Ibid ideas imagination imitation invention John John Dennis John Keble John Stuart Mill Johnson Joseph Warton Keats Keble kind language literature London Longinus lyric mechanical metaphor Mill Milton mind mirror moral nature neo-classic objects organic original passage passion philosophy Plato pleasure poem Poesy poet poet's poetic Pope Preface principle prose qualities reader rhetoric Richard Hurd romantic critics says Schlegel sense Shakespeare Shakespearean Criticism Shelley Shelley's soul spirit spontaneous sublime theorists theory things thought tion tradition true truth universe words Wordsworth Wordsworth's Literary Criticism writings wrote