The mirror and the lamp : romantic theory and the critical tradition /

Abrams, M. H. 1912-2015.

The mirror and the lamp : romantic theory and the critical tradition / by M.H. Abrams. - London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. - 406 p. ; 21 cm. - A Galaxy book ; GB 360 .

Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction: Orientation of critical theories -- Imitation and the mirror -- Romantic analogues of art and mind -- Development of the expressive theory of poetry and art -- Varieties of romantic theory, Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Varieties of romantic theory, Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and others -- Psychology of literary invention, mechanical and organic theories -- Psychology of literary invention, unconscious genius and organic growth -- Literature as a revelation of personality -- Criterion of truth to nature, romance, myth, and metaphor -- Science and poetry in romantic criticism.

0195014715 9780195014716


Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.


Romanticism.

PN 769 .R7 / A2