George Berkeley and Romanticism - Ghostly Language

A study of philosopher George Berkeley's influence on British Romantic poetry, and especially the works of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley that offers new readings of Berkeley's works and the development of his style as a writer.

List of contents

• Part One


• Introduction: Ghostly Language


• 1: Berkeley and the Language of Philosophy


• Part Two


• 2: Spiritual Bodies and Mental Realities in Blake


• 3: Inside Outness in Coleridge


• 4: Wordsworth's Ghostly Language


• 5: Shelley's Uncreative Mind


• Conclusion: Berkeley and Romanticism

About the author

Chris Townsend is a College Teaching Officer in English Literature at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, and a researcher working mainly on Romantic poetics and aesthetics. His published articles include work on rhythm in Keats, rhyme in Rossetti, and prose-borne pentameters in Woolf.

Summary

A study of philosopher George Berkeley's influence on British Romantic poetry, and especially the works of William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley that offers new readings of Berkeley's works and the development of his style as a writer.

Additional text

Townsend's study is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the philosophy of the Romantic period, its reception of Enlightenment, and its thinking about poetic form.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Townsend, Chris (Teaching Officer in English Townsend, Townsend Chris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780192846785
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284678-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literary studies: poetry and poets