Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin
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Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin

Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation

  1. 468 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin

Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation

About this book

Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of these Romantics in particular but also for Romanticism in general.

Originally published in 1981.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Key to Brief Titles Cited
  5. Introduction. Fragmented Modalities and the Criteria of Romanticism
  6. 1. The Symbiosis of Coleridge and Wordsworth
  7. 2. Coleridge's Anxiety
  8. 3. The Significant Group: Wordsworth's Fears in Solitude
  9. 4. Problems of Style in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge
  10. First Landing Place. Poetry and the Poem: The Structure of Poetic Content
  11. 5. A Complex Dialogue: Coleridge's Doctrine of Polarity and Its European Contexts
  12. 6. The Psychic Economy and Cultural Meaning of Coleridge's Magnum Opus
  13. Second Landing Place. The Place Beyond the Heavens: True Being, Transcendence, and the Symbolic Indication of Wholeness
  14. Index