Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic LiteratureUniversity of Pittsburgh Pre, 15 jul 1977 - 288 pagina's One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art. |
Inhoudsopgave
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5 Roxana and Empire | 59 |
The Politics of Melancholy | 73 |
The Politics of Nostalgia | 95 |
8 Wordswort at Grasmere | 114 |
9 The Arab Rider | 136 |
Change and Loss in Grasmere | 163 |
11 The Wordsworthian Child | 184 |
12 Westward the Course of Empire | 208 |
13 Conclusion | 232 |
Notes | 243 |
Index | 265 |
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Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature Laurence Goldstein Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2004 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
America beauty Blake Blake's Book Byron child childhood civilization Cowper death decay Defoe Defoe's describes Deserted Village desire despair destruction Dorothy Dorothy Wordsworth dream Dyer Dyer's earth Edmund Spenser eighteenth century empire England English Ernest de Selincourt essay fear feel Felpham Fleece French Revolution garden glory Goldsmith Grongar Hill happiness heaven Hervey Home at Grasmere horror human images imagination immortality imperial John John Dyer landscape later Letters live London Lord luxury M. H. Abrams melancholy memory Milton mind monuments moral nation nature Night Thoughts Oliver Goldsmith Oxford paradise passage pastoral pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry political praise Prelude preserve prophetic Prose Revolution Roman Roxana ruin sentiment Ruins of Rome Salisbury Plain Satan scene soul Spenser spirit Stonehenge symbol things Tintern Abbey tion trade University Press vale verse vision William William Blake Wordsworth worldly writes wrote York Young