Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination write by Frederick Burwick. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Madness and the Romantic Poet
Madness and the Romantic Poet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness and the Romantic Poet write by James Whitehead. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Madness and the Romantic Poet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition
Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition write by Paul Davies. This book was released on 1998-02-15. Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spititual quest is at the very heart of poetry, but in the materialistic climate of the late twentieth century this has been almost forgotten, even by those claiming to be experts in interpreting literature. How does the worldview common to the main esoteric traditions of East and West correspond to the aims of such Romantic poets as Shelley, Keats, Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth? In Romanticism and Esoteric Tradition, Paul Davies maintains that only in the light of the spiritual teachings of these traditions can the poetry and thinking of the Romantics be understood as they intended. This is one of the first books to connect the creative nature of poetry to the core teachings of the esoteric tradition, and thereby to bring out the true meaning of several Romantic writers whose works have been trivialized by a culture that has marginalized the spiritual and tied itself to material, historical, and social issues. The author also shows that the Romantics were the first Western poets to imagine the relationship of the self to the environment as personal encounter. In this sense the Romantics were recalling a long-held secret of the esoteric "human sciences," not inventing a new one. This book brings the deepest interests of the Romantics directly into contact with issues closest to present-day students of the spiritual traditions and holistic perspectives.
The Romantic Imagination
The Romantic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romantic Imagination write by Cecil Maurice Bowra. This book was released on 1961. The Romantic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical guide to the poets of the romantic period, this collection of lectures reassesses the literary value of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Poe, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Swinburne.
«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774
«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook «Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 write by Natali, Ilaria. This book was released on 2016-08-30. «Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
