1st Edition

Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

By H. W. Häusermann Copyright 1963
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences. This study attempts to provide an examination of Arnold by exploring and evaluating the full... Read more

Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction  2. Such Need of Joy: Wordsworth  3. The Anguish of Greatness: Byron  4. The Strayed Revellers: Keats  5. The Intense Inane: Shelley and Coleridge  6. Between Two Worlds: Matthew Arnold and Romanticism;  Appendix;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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