Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971) - Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

First published in 1971, Professor Knight's book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of the foremost seers of the modern age. A comprehensive review of the work of Francis Berry claims to establish him as our foremost living poet. Professor Knight urges, and goes far to prove, that modern literary criticism up until the 1970s failed to touch upon the richer meanings of contemporary literature - he stresses the relation between such acclaimed poets as Yeats and Eliot and the spiritualistic movements of contemporary times. Knight regards youth-revolts as a sign of a healthy dissatisfaction with an irreligious and directionless culture, and believes that hope lies in the neglected powers pressing for acceptance.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One - Introduction 1. Poetry and magic; Part Two - Obscenities 2. Who wrote Don Leon? 3. Coleman and Don Leon 4. Lawrence, Joyce and Powys 5. Mysticism and Masturbation: an introduction to the lyrics of John Cowper Powys 6. The ship of cruelty: on the lyrical poems of John Cowper Powys Part Three - Spiritualities 7. The Scholar Gypsy 8. Poetry and the Arts: Tennyson, Browning, O’Shaughnessy, Yeats 9. Masefield and Spiritualism 10. Rupert Brooke 11. T.E. Lawrence 12. J. Middleton Murray 13. T.S. Eliot 14. John Cowper Powys Part Four -Totalities 15. Excalibur: an essay on Tennyson 16. Owen Glendower: Powys 17. Francis Berry Epilogue 18. Herbert Read and Byron; Appendix; Indexes

About the author

G. Wilson Knight

Summary

First published in 1971, this book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood.

Product details

• Authors: G Wilson Knight, G. Wilson Knight, G. Wilson (University of Calgary Knight, Knight G. Wilson, George Wilson Knight
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138308060
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30806-0
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literature: history and criticism, Poetry / Poems