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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
M. H. Abrams
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paperback. "The first modern study of the Romantic achievement, its origins and evolution both in theory and practice."-Stuart M. Sperry, Jr., Indiana Unviersity Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789–1835)—the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression, and ways of feeling and imagining; that the writings of these poets were an integral part of a comprehensive intellectual tendency which manifested itself in philosophy as well as poetry, in England and in Germany; and that this tendency was causally related to drastic political and social changes of the ... Read more
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789–1835)—the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression, and ways of feeling and imagining; that the writings of these poets were an integral part of a comprehensive intellectual tendency which manifested itself in philosophy as well as poetry, in England and in Germany; and that this tendency was causally related to drastic political and social changes of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
554
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393006094
SKU
KTS0035952
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About M. H. Abrams
M. H. Abrams (1912—2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing ... Read more
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