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Informationen zum Autor CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife . Klappentext Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past. Zusammenfassung Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald! this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal! aesthetic! and collective memory! as well as history! the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index
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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index
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CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife.
