Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950. A request for lectures of this kind came originally from a group of science students and the response was such that a course of this nature ran yearly. The purpose was to provide students from disciplines other than the humanities with the opportunity to feed their interest in English poetry and literature.

This book is the result of investiging whether Ode to a Nightingale could be interpreted as the record of an actual song that moved Keats so deeply as to involve, in Jung's terms, an experience of the Self. . It is in effect a biographical study of one aspect of Keats' life of the imagination. It suggests why he became a poet, shows how his attitude to his poetry changed, how in Jungian terms he first met his 'shadow', rejected it, then came to accept it, and how this affected his poetry.

The meaning of the few psychological terms used in the book are clarified by...

First published in 1927 (this edition in 1967), this book is about Blake, his symbols, and their meanings. As Ward says in his forward, the volume goes beyond Blake, becoming universal and timeless, and is about Religion. Plowman s book presents itself, not as a critical text, but an interpretative one, and the study therefore illuminates the work of the author, as well as that of William Blake. "

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a' Kempis,...

Diese Studie untersucht das latente Wirken des Theaters in der britischen romantischen Literatur. Sie zeigt, wie fasziniert Wordsworth und Scott von Theaterkonzepten waren, die auf den britischen Buhnen nicht umzusetzen waren, und wie sie diese in ihren eigenen Texten aufgriffen und gestalteten. Als eine der ersten Detailuntersuchungen zum Verhaltnis vonTheater und Text entwickelt die Studie zudem ein integratives Modell der Intermedialitat.