Challenging the view of Shelley, Arnold, and Eliot that there has been a decline in human sensibility in the later history of European culture, H. M. Richmond demonstrates that the history of the love lyric, at least, reveals a progressive enrichment of human awareness. His original combination of traditional and new critical methods is particularly effective in this study.
Originally published in 1964.
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Challenging the view of Shelley, Arnold, and Eliot that there has been a decline in human sensibility in the later history of European culture, H. ...