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 contents: R Wordsworth's complexity: Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's simplicity: Jerusalem, Chapter 1; Shelley's perplexity: R Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and object: Sordello, Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and subject: R In Memoriam

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389202932
• ISBN13: 9780389202936
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"