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406 S.; 20,5 cm; kart.

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Gutes Ex.; Seiten minimal nachgedunkelt. - Englisch. - ... "With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields - for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics." . - HARRY BERGHOLZ, Modern Language Journal ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : ? VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC THEORY: WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE -- Wordsworth and the Eighteenth Century -- Coleridge on Poems Poetry and Poets -- VI. VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC THEORY: SHELLEY HAZLITT KEBLE AND OTHERS -- Shelley and Romantic Platonism -- Longinus Hazlitt Keats and the Criterion of Intensity -- Poetry as Catharsis: John Keble and Others -- The Semantics of Expressive Language: Alexander Smith -- VII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY INVENTION: MECHANICAL AND ORGANIC THEORIES -- The Mechanical Theory of Literary Invention -- Coleridge's Mechanical Fancy and Organic Imagination -- The Associative Imagination in the Romantic Period -- VIII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY INVENTION: UNCONSCIOUS GENIUS AND ORGANIC GROWTH -- Natural Genius Inspiration and Grace -- Natural Genius and Natural Growth in Eighteenth-Century England -- German Theories of Vegetable Genius -- Unconscious Invention in English Criticism -- v. Coleridge and the Aesthetics of Organism -- IX. LITERATURE AS A REVELATION OF PERSONALITY -- Style and the Man -- Subjective and Objective and Romantic Polysemism -- Subjective and Objective in English Theory -- The Paradox of Shakespeare -- Milton Satan and Eve -- The Key to Homer's Heart -- X. THE CRITERION OF TRUTH TO NATURE: ROMANCE MYTH AND METAPHOR -- Truth and the Poetic Marvelous -- The Logic of Deviation from Empirical Truth -- The Poem as Heterocosm -- (u.a.m.) ISBN 0195014715