Language as Living Form in 19th Century Poetry

by Isobel Armstrong

Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study.
Partial ^R Wordsworth's Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's Jerusalem , Chapter 1; Shelley's ^R Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and Sordello , Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and ^R In Memoriam

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982