Memory and Writing from Wordsworth to Lawrence: Volume 21

by Philip Davis

In this wide-ranging work, the author challenges T. S. Eliot's belief that 'the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates'. Davis examines the relation of imagination and the creation of art to the experience of life, both individual and social, which provides the source and subject of so much nineteenth-century literature. In its detailed and closely argued examination of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853234248
• ISBN13: 9780853234241
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.0"