Summary
Bloom, Harold, ed. Romanticism and
Consciousness
Summary by David Marra
This is a collection of essays on
Romanticism split into four parts.
The are: Nature and Consciousness,
Nature and Revolution, Nature and
Literary Form, and The Major Poets.
Each deals with a certain aspect
of Romanticism. Nature and Consciousness
focuses and the Romantic writers'
different attitudes toward consciousness.
More specifically, the sublime, as
conceived by Edmund Burke, and the
imaginistic, described here by Paul
de Man and W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. Nature
and Revolution is concerned with
literature related to the French
Revolution: a political study of
Blake, and Alfred Coban's political
vision of Romanticism are included.
Nature and Literary Form discusses
literary innovations such as verse
forms and metrics, verbal mode, and
questions of aesthetic theory. The
Major Poets has essays on the following
English Romantic poets:
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- including
an essay about Kubla Khan (Dr. Hurlbut
was right!)
John Keats
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Jesse D. Hurlbut--Last Updated November 5, 1993