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.