Language as Living Form in 19th Century Poetry

Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study.
Partial contents: ^R Wordsworth's complexity: Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's simplicity: Jerusalem, Chapter 1; Shelley's perplexity: ^R Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and object: Sordello, Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and subject: ^R In Memoriam

Product details

• Authors: Isobel Armstrong
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1982
• EAN: 9780389202936
• ISBN: 978-0-389-20293-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies