Summary
Barfield, Owen. Romanticism Comes
of Age. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan
University Press, 1967.
212 B238 1967
Summary by Chris Dotson
In Romanticism Comes of Age, Barfield
divides the Romantic Movement into
two parts - the literary part and
the metaphysical part. He says,
"I doubt whether anyone, who considers
it, will deny that the Romantic Movement
is closely connected with an enhanced
sense of human freedom. Barfield
seems mainly concerned in finding
out the elements that make up Romanticism;
among these are beauty, freedom and
goodness. He then goes on to try
to find out how imagination could
be a ªvehicle of truth or knowledge,º
looking at both Western and Eastern
concepts in this attempt.
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Jesse D. Hurlbut--Last Updated November 15, 1993