Vision and Disenchantment

Klappentext A challenging and persuasive interpretation of poems too often seen as part of a coherent and accepted literary tradition. Zusammenfassung Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Wordsworth's contributions to Lyrical Ballads were both published in the last decade of the eighteenth century. The similarities between the two collections have often been noticed. However! as Dr Glen argues! to assimilate both collections to a common 'Romanticism' is to obscure that which is most distinctive in each. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on the texts; Introduction; 1. Poetic 'simplicity': Blake's Songs and eighteenth-century children's verse; 2. Poetic 'simplicity': Lyrical Ballads and magazine verse; 3. The real language of men; 4. Vision and morality: Songs of Innocence; 5. The morality of experience: Songs of Experience; 6. Morality through experience: Lyrical Ballads 1798; 7. Desire and disillusion: the Goslar Lyrics; 8. Names and signs: the poems of Grasmere; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Glen
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521271981
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27198-1
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies