Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen

Abstract

Part 1 Romantic illusions: the definitive text, Honore de Balzac et al the intense inane - religious revivial in English, French and German romanticism, M.K. Abrams and William Empson separating life and art - romantic documents, romantic punctuation, Gustave Flaubert and George Gordon Byron the cookbook as romantic pastoral, Elizabeth David secret codes, Caspar David Friedrich and Robert Schumann mad poets, William Cowper et al. Part 2 Approaches to criticism: the ruins of Walter Benjamin - German and English baroque drama, romantic aesthetics and symbolist theory of language concealed structures, Heinrich Schenker et al ambiguous intentions, William Empson the journalist critic as hero, George Bernard Shaw.

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